On a sunny Wednesday lunchtime, the City of London is usually teeming with crowds of workers looking for a swift business lunch. But many of the city’s traders are open with empty seats and no queues as their usual customers are working from home.
“It’s dramatically dropped,” says the manager of MuMu Street Food, a restaurant that serves Asian food near Moorgate. “We [usually] have a queue, we’re non-stop working, but now I have nothing to do but sit and wait for customers.”
