I think large corps can simply just get away with passing the extra energy costs on to the customer, it'll be the smaller family type businesses who will find it harder to put it on the bill so may start requesting more wfh where it's possible.
I was reading stories the other day of chip shops worrying about having to close because not only energy costs are up but also costs for fish, chips & peas, most saying they don't want to put the costs on the customer because it would likely make things prohibitively expensive so they'd end up with a lot less custom than the fewers profits from swallowing the costs. Was another story of a village pub landlady deciding to give up her "goldmine" pub because the last energy bill was close to £30k
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I think catering is going to suffer yet again just like they did with pandemic, except this time they won't be able to at least change to takeaway to get around restrictions because there simply won't be demand with people cutting back