With less than a month to go before hospitality starts to resume trading, CGA’s new Consumer Countdown to Reopening research shows a widespread determination to get back to restaurants, pubs and bars—even if it means sitting outside.

Operators and suppliers will have to appeal to a much changed consumer base split between enthusiastic and more hesitant users, the latest edition of CGA’s new Consumer Countdown to Reopening Series reports shows.

Consumers are set to prioritise eating and drinking out in their spending after lockdown, but remain cautious about longer term financial impacts of the pandemic.