Eat Out to Help Out: number of restaurants registered UK

Over 50 thousand restaurants registered for the UK government's 'Eat Out to Help Out Scheme' in July and August 2020. At the time the scheme ended on August 31, approximately 84,700 individual restaurant premises were registered. The discount scheme was an incentive set up to help businesses attract customers following the UK lockdown due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The scheme encouraged people to eat out at restaurants by offering them discounts on certain days of the week, which they could then claim back from the government.

Number of individual restaurant premises registered for the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme in the United Kingdom (UK) from July to August 2020*

Characteristic	Number of registered individual restaurant premises
Jul 19	32,362
Jul 26	53,058
Aug 2	72,089
Aug 9	83,000
Aug 12	85,000
Aug 23	84,000
Aug 27	84,700

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August 2020

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

July 19 to August 27, 2020

Supplementary notes

* The Eat Out to Help Out Scheme was set up by the UK government to help restaurant and food service businesses struggling due to the coronavirus crisis. The scheme incentivises customers to eat out at restaurants by giving them a discount at participating businesses which they can claim back from the government. The scheme began on July 13 and ended August 31, 2020.

The figures are as of midnight on the given dates.
This statistic is using original data from the HM Revenue and Customs and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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