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TWO DUBLIN CITY restaurants owned by celebrity chef Dylan McGrath have closed without notice.
In a statement today, McGrath said it’s “hard to put into words what has happened to restaurants and the city centre in the last four years” as he announced the closure of Brasserie Sixty6 and Rustic Stone.
Brasserie Sixty6 had been in business for 25 years, while Rustic Stone was in operation for 15 years.
Both restaurants are on Dublin’s South Great George’s Street.
McGrath remarked that the “time has come where we have decided it’s simply not sustainable”.
He added: “No doubt we will miss the restaurants, but selling on the leases and concentrating on Fade Street Social currently is what’s needed.”
McGrath further remarked that the focus will now be on making Fade Street Social “the best it can be”.
McGrath also said it’s a “very challenging time for stand-alone restaurant models” and noted that both Rustic Stone and Brasserie Sixty6 have been “very successful restaurants in Dublin City for a long time”.
“But hospitality is changing,” said McGrath, “and we believe our strong work ethic is better applied to new and different opportunities.”
In a statement to The Journal, Adrian Cummins, CEO of the Restaurants Association of Ireland, said that an “average of two restaurants, cafés and other food-led businesses continue to close each day across the country”.
He described this as “disturbing but, unfortunately, not surprising”.
Cummins added: “Rising costs and a pressurised consumer has meant our industry now faces a fundamentally broken model.”
He said that “only the reinstatement of the 9% VAT rate on food, reversing the Government’s 50% increase in the rate last September, will return long-term viability to the sector”.
VAT for the tourism and hospitality sectors was reduced to 9% during the Covid-19 pandemic, at a cost of €1.2bn to the exchequer.
The previous 13.5% rate was reinstated last September, despite the sector’s opposition.
Last week, the Restaurants Association of Ireland said 577 restaurants had closed since the VAT rate was reinstated to 13.5%.
It added that in a recent survey of its members, 74% of respondents said they will have to close their businesses if the VAT rate on food is not reinstated to 9% in the Budget.
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No wonder Teesh Simon is a fan.
So to highlight disinformation they have spread disinformation…..bit ironic no
@Toca Stories: no….they deleted them before they went out??
@NotMyIreland: yes they did. It’s part of their MO
@Toca Stories: the ads were never aired. Try reading the article before commenting.
Simon for tae shocked
Tick-Tock Taoiseach spreads a fair bit himself..
And btw Journal.. look at the Trump/FG trolls in the comments for last few weeks before throwing any stones at others.
yet our elected numb nuts in the dail continue to use it……ironic
TikToxic just needs to disappear. It’s cancer of the internet.
@Daniel Skelton: a bit like the comments section here, notice how only a select few articles can be commented on now.
@Andrew Giles: The Journal (of Censorship)
Wow ! Disinformation ! Is this a new word for bullshiting ?
The advent of social media in general has ruined the minds of people. It’s a toxicity, a cesspit, a breeding ground for hatred and false realities. It’s addictive nature is, in particular, destroying younger minds. 20 years from now, our species will be the dumbest It’s been as a result.
@Andrew Kenny:
Sure we can just identify as another species, I’m gonna be a fish.
@Regular John: I might be a cat myself. Lol.
If the posts ” “should have been immediately clear to any human reviewer” that these statements were false.”, why would it not be immediately clear to any human reader that they are false?
@Oh Mammy: I guess some people would not have seen them as false, because they would have comforted them in a narrative they already espouse (these people can be called, according to your own sensibilities, “woke”, “far-right”, “conspiracy theorists”, etc. Everybody has a go at someone else these days)
@Jerry LeFrog: are you suggesting this condition does not apply to human reviewers?
@Oh Mammy: I said “some”. I’m sure though that the vast majority of humans would be able to realize those were fake ads. At least 90%. I just have doubts for a small minority who don’t seem to think for themselves, and these pose a greater danger to the rest of us
@Oh Mammy: most first line moderation is done electronically. It usually only goes to a human if it’s flagged. Use the right words to avoid the flags and most posts will go live unless they’re reported. Then you have Facebook and X that allow misinformation and worse whether it’s flagged or not.
@Oh Mammy: Completely clueless aren’t you ? Do you really think “humans” review hundred of thousands of video every day?
@Alex: reading comprehension is not your thing, is it?
This is nonsense from this crowd.
Those advertismenets were not disinformation.
They were just silly.
Tik Tok just created a shocking election last Sunday in Romania, as a nobody WON the first round of presidential elections due to farms of bots and heavy influenced Tik Tok reels. Scary stuff. Read about Calin Georgescu, who had the 7th or 8th chance to win and he… won.
How about Irish election misinformation when the camera conscious woman says “I don’t care” and Harris is accused of ending the conversation.
Chinese tr4sh, what do you expect. It should be banned.
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