Here’s how a dictionary defines accountant
One that keeps, audits, and inspects the financial records of individuals or business concerns and prepares financial and tax reports.
I however have a different definition.
Dull unimaginative as**le, one who’s sole purpose in life is to count things.
Generally grey in dress and thought.
With a nod to Oscar Wilde ,one who knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.
Yes I hate these guys who have in the main tries to ruin what was once a fun industry to work in.
Trying to mix accountants with hotels is bad in that hotel staff are generally creative, well some of us anyway, and accountants well aren’t.
These people who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing have come up with a great scheme to feed people on buttons (£2.50) a head ,while at the same time throwing in all the drink you can drink ,for £25 a night.
Great you may think, not so.
Consider that at this cost hotels are now open to some with no social skills sober, add in the free drink and I shudder to think at the outcome.
What quality of food and service will be available at this kind of rate?
If guests are getting everything they need included what does this leave for the economy of the town that the hotel is based in?
Some papers ,maybe some headache tablets or hangover cures, surely there should be something for other local businesses as no company exists in a vacuum.
Given that the Uk government is trying to promote responsible drinking, how does this idea square with that .
Are we really trying to cater to lager louts and pissheads, as a market segment?
What kind of money is going to be left to pay staff, mainly minimum wage poorly paid harassed and unmotivated, or migrant workers from eastern European states, a good advert for Uk tourism come to Britain and be served by someone who can’t speak English that well, I can’t either but that’s mainly grammar.
The catering industry was starting to make some progress thanks to the efforts of guys like Gordon Ramsay, Gary Rhodes ,Rick Stein and others but it looks like the budget end is going backwards
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