Glasgow waits for Level 2 decision
Scotland's biggest city is the only place where you still can't buy an alcoholic drink indoors
Last updated 28th May 2021
Pub and restaurant owners in Glasgow are eagerly waiting to find out if they'll get the green light to move to level 2 with the rest of Scotland.
The First Minister will reveal later if coronavirus restrictions will be eased so they can open until half 10 at night and serve alcohol indoors.
Speaking at the last briefing on Tuesday Nicola Sturgeon said there were reasons for optimism, and there has been a slight fall in hospital numbers and ICU patients in the last couple of days.
However, the latest figures from Public Health Scotland show Glasgow's case rate per 100,000 at 145, when the threshold for Level 2 restrictions was supposed to be set at 50.
In East Renfrewshire the figure was 104 and cases in neighbouring Renfrewshire are catching up fast, sitting at 97.
Exhausting
Nicola Wilkinson from Sloans and Brel in Glasgow says it's exhausting not knowing what'll happen.
"The constant changes, and having to have five plans up our sleeves, doing four different rotas, coming up with different contingency plans, and second-guessing is stressful," she says.
"Being in Level 2 means we can trade at a greater level and don't have to cancel bookings. For our business to survive we need this."
Graham Suttle runs the Finnieston Bar and is warning the supply chain will struggle to cope with overnight changes affecting Scotland's biggest city:
"We are under-prepared. We are under-stocked and under-supplied and that creates stress on our waiting staff and the customers who can't get what they want.
"To expect suppliers to be holding a mysterious stock of goods to keep the entire Scottish hospitality industry in product is just foolhardy because that's just not how cash flow works."