Taste the Place launches as part of Glasgow 850 celebrations

As Glasgow celebrates 850 years the city council has launched a new project aimed at shining a spotlight on local hospitality.

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00:00Hospitality is a great way of telling stories about Glasgow, it's a good way of telling a

00:04story about what it's like to be here now and why you should visit Glasgow if you're not a Glaswegian

00:10and what more you can get from your own city if you are a Glaswegian. It's part of the daily life

00:15of the city but it also tells a story of how cultures have engaged with the city over time.

00:20Immigration obviously a big part of Glasgow's social and cultural history and hospitality

00:26is usually one of the expressions of that whether that's in Indian food or Italian food or Chinese

00:32food and so many different cultures now quite often there's an immigration story attached to

00:38that and I think that's an important part of what we want to celebrate 850 years into Glasgow's

00:44history and how we expect Glasgow to evolve as a global city in the next 50 years. So it felt like

00:51an important part of the story but it's also we felt important commercially because hospitality

00:57has had an absolute nightmare of a time in the last five years, a combination of the pandemic

01:05where hospitality was clearly right in the crosshairs of government policy on mixing

01:13and the implications that had for all those hospitality businesses financially, how do they

01:20navigate their way through that? But it's also been difficult in the last three years because of

01:25the inflationary challenges, energy costs, cost of living more generally so demand has changed as well

01:34partially from the pandemic but also very much because people are finding it harder to

01:39make their household budgets add up and that's putting a lot of pressure on hospitality industry.