Oisin Rogers

Basically, if you have a pub license, you can operate it and obviously trade it and sell it, but in the same location.

When pub licenses like the old Devonshire one lapse, they're gone.

So to apply for a new pub license and be granted it is very unusual, particularly in Westminster, but we managed to make it happen.

Well, the biggest regulatory burden we have is licensing, which is obviously for public safety to make sure that you don't do things like have too many people in, open at the wrong time, serve people when they're drunk, encourage crime, all of those stuff.

But those can be very burdensome in some locations for lots of reasons.

You've also got to make sure your neighbours are happy, that you don't make too much noise.

Yeah, there's a big issue with that, particularly in the suburbs outside.

There's lots of regulations about when you can have deliveries because of what time they'll come and go, how much noise there'll be, where you store your bins, what time they're collected, how your bottles are handled.

There's lots and lots of things.

But of course, all of these regulations are there for the benefit of our society and our communities.

And most of them are great, but some of them can be quite burdensome for businesses.

We really look for people who will feel comfortable in our environment.

So people who've got great skills at relating to others, great skills at wooing people to have a nice time.

People who will work hard and are able to believe what we believe in terms of- Is it hard to find?

Absolutely.

We find ourselves quite lucky.

And anecdotally, I don't see that issue that people keep saying that young people don't want to work.

Our best workers are-

Between 18 and 23 years old, we've got a dozen amazing examples of that who are so reliable, so hardworking, incredibly happy, very efficient and thankfully really well looked after by us.

And I'm really proud of that.