Setting up a business is never easy, so what is it like to set up a restaurant with the added complications of a global pandemic and restrictions?

As restaurants get ready to re-open inside today Graham Rebak, co-owner of new restaurant HUŎ in Chelsea, tells the BBC about the hurdle's he's faced over the last year.

"Since we found the site in April 2020 it's been difficult all the way through. Finding tradesmen, craftsmen, builders to do the project was fraught with difficulty.

"And there were some times where you had to shut the premises because there was a fear there might have been an outbreak," he said.

"But we've battled through it and now we're hopefully looking forward to opening on 1 June. "

Mr Rebak said he had also noticed less people were replying to job adverts, something he has put down to many people moving out of the city during the pandemic.

"Finding people, in normal times, to respond to the advert you'd have hundreds of responses but now we're seeing far fewer responses so it's pring difficult but we're slowly getting there."

Marc Ashdown
Work and Money Correspondent, BBC London

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So the days of huddling round heaters are over. Indoors is the new outdoors.

But for London's battered economy, the next stage of "life after lockdown" brings as many questions as answers.

Firstly, how confident will people be to get out shopping, socialising and returning to the office?

Even if there is demand, limits on capacity will be an issue for live venues. Masks, sanitising and social distancing will continue for some time, so how sustainable will it be for theatres, cinemas and concerts to operate with a fraction of the usual paying audience?

What will it mean for jobs too? Thousands of EU nationals have left the capital during the pandemic, replaced by 'hiring' signs in many high street windows.

Opportunities perhaps for the younger generation, who’ve tended to be hardest hit by redundancies over the past year.

But as government financial support starts to wind down, businesses of all sizes will be doing some serious calculations to work out how to balance their books.

Overseas visitors will also be few and far between for some time, a vital revenue stream reduced to a summer trickle.

Businesses will be hoping they can return soon, but in the meantime with no queues and no crowds, will there be a better time to see some of London’s sights?

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