Geoff Rowley

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Italian Restaurant chain Carluccio gone into the administration, blaming "challenging trading conditions" exacerbated by the coronavirus.

Administrator FRP is "urgently looking at options" for The Future of The Company .

to mothballing belong to sell The Company with state support, as well as try, or parts thereof.

Most of The Company 's 2,000 employees will be paid for by the government, the job retention scheme, while these options are investigated.

This allows you to be paid for employee, up to 80% of their salary.

The Restaurant chain collapse occurred a few minutes after the rent-to-own company BrightHouse - the largest rent-to-own operator in the UK - also collapsed.

Together, the two companies will employ 4,500 employees.

Carluccio's had already warned it was closing under permanent store due to the coronavirus.

Before the outbreak, it was not a hit and recently The State requested in the breach.

Geoff Rowley , joint administrator and partner at GFK, comments: "We Are operating in unprecedented times, and the problems that are documented currently in the hospitality industry after the outbreak of the Covid-19 are good.

"In The Absence of being able to trade next to Carluccio's, in the short term, We Are strongly focused on the available options to preserve The Future of The Company and for the protection of their employees. "

Mr Rowley said GFK was looking forward to working with HMRC to access the support provided for companies in the management and their employees.

He added: "As this fast-moving situation progresses, we will remain in regular communication with all employees and stakeholders, and it will be a further update in due course. "

Denise (name changed) has been working for Carluccio's for The Last Four Years and worked in their store in the Grand Central Shopping Centre in Birmingham, when it first came out, that The Chain was in trouble.

"We were not told us everything," She Said . "We found out about the Bbc News . "

Denise said Carluccio ' s employees were assured that their March would be paid salaries as normal, but if you have your salary slips, they found that they had received, only 50% of what they were owed.

"The holiday pay, continued payment of wages in case of illness, they have deducted 50% of everything," she told The Bbc . "I can't my rent to pay this month. I have no children, but Other People , which will have to decide whether to pay rent, electricity or food bills. "

She Said that the officials of the Unite union, contact with the Carluccio's in your job, seek clarification about when The Other half of The Money paid.

"We have received legal advice and we have told, what you have done is illegal," She Said , adding that the deductions took their pay below the minimum Wage .

Antonio Carluccio founded The Chain in 1999

John Colley, associate dean at Warwick Business School, told The Bbc that the companies were in this sector is likely to follow, Carluccio's in the administration.

"they had overstretched, like many other restaurant chains," He Said .

price wars and increases in the minimum Wage had restaurants under strong pressure, he added.

"I think the fact that Carluccio's was so fast, in the administration says that this is said not by a coronavirus," Prof Colley.

"All the problems were there anyway, and this is just The Last straw. "

Existing problems

"limitations", with the aim of a reduction of the Corona-Virus-pandemic.

Carluccio's has in the face of some difficult times in recent years, a third of the restaurants close in 2018

Like many in the casual dining area, it is the main felt spending a load on a decline in the consumer, combined with high business rates, and increases in The National Wage .

Prezzo and Byron CVAs used to be in the vicinity of restaurants, while Jamie's Italian, went into administration in The Past year.

has died, The Chain founded More Than 20 years ago, star chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio , at the age of 80 in the year 2017.

restaurants, coronavirus pandemic

Source of news: bbc.com