A Skegness cafe has stopped serving hot food and is offering customers cake and coffee to survive rising costs. It is one of the tough decisions being taken by businesses on coast.
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00:00 Hi I'm Danny Brooks, I'm on endorsements on the high streets in the skate park.
00:09 Now Danny, we're stood next to some splendid looking cakes, some of them are no-go, homemade
00:15 and absolutely delicious. And we're told that football is down, how is business?
00:22 To be fair, business is down, a lot of that's to do with the weather, we've also got the cost of living crisis, people are watching the pennies.
00:32 Now how are businesses responding to that, because one of the councillors has said that they're having to make some tough decisions.
00:43 Yeah, I think businesses have got to adapt to the situation we've adapted by we took all the hot food off, because we can't afford, due to the increase in electricity,
00:54 we can't afford to run the griddles and the ovens and the bain maries all day like we used to do.
01:00 And how have your customers responded to that?
01:03 Well, some were quite upset because we used to do some real nice breakfast and whatever,
01:09 however most understand it, they've seen their own electric bills go up so they can understand how ours has shot up.
01:17 So are you still hopeful for the summer?
01:19 Oh I think the summer will come now, we're just into the six week holidays, people are starting to turn up and yeah I'm hoping for a favourable summer.