Chef Tom Kerridge fears many businesses in the hospitality industry will go under this winter as energy bills skyrocket during the cost of living crisis.
The Michelin-starred chef, from Salisbury, has run the Bull & Bear restaurant in Manchester’s Stock Exchange Hotel on Norfolk Street since 2019. He said that he has heard of cases where restaurants are facing rising energy costs of ‘anywhere between 300 to 700pc’ this year.
Earlier this week, Kerridge said energy bills at his three pubs in Marlow, Buckinghamshire had skyrocketed from £60,000 to £420,000. One pub alone is expected to see its usual monthly electricity bill go from £5,000 to £35,000 in December.
