What a jol the annual restaurant industry bash was. It was fabulous, a great big restaurant industry love-in. But is the money lavished on this grand affair being spent wisely?
Ramaphosa setting out government s priorities for 2023 was a reminder of a pledge in 2022 that the government would mobilise investment in hemp and cannabis.
The first rule of 2021, they say, is never talk about 2020. Those who survived it will know it was craziness upon madness on top of incredulity wrapped up in WTF. And a week into this new year it already looks like it’s a case of “here, hold my beer” along with a dramatic eye-rolling “bitch, please”. Every morning the news has me muttering Dorothy Parker’s words: “What fresh hell is this?”
The archives are crammed with stories about what the hospitality and restaurant industries endured, and the wild Coronacoaster they rode throughout various levels of lockdown and restrictions in 2020. Battered and bruised, restaurateurs picked themselves up and reinvented their offerings in an attempt to stave off total disaster. Not all of them made it.