Issues Concering The Hospitality Industry

Question 1

How does healthy eating and lifestyle choices have an impact on businesses?

Answer 1

They need to think about how to improve food choices on their menus, offering more healthy options and providing customers with information about what is contained in the food and beverages

Question 2

How does the licensing reform have an impact on businesses?

Answer 2

There’s a lot of alcohol-fuelled antisocial behaviour so the government introduced early morning alcohol restriction orders, tax on late-night licence holders and minimum pricing for alcohol

Question 3

How does the national minimum wage have an impact on businesses?

Answer 3

When it increases, businesses may not be able to meet the increase in pay as their profit margins are already small and products and services are more expensive

Question 4

How does handling food waste have an impact on businesses?

Answer 4

It will cause pests like rats. Businesses need to make sure that they don’t:

• order too many supplies
• use suppliers before they go out of date
• not too large portions on customers’ plates

Question 5

How does the investment in tourism funding have an impact on businesses?

Answer 5

People will choose to take their holidays in other countries as they go in search for sunshine