Sheffield bar manager 'uncomfortable' about taking people's details and won’t be reopening on July 4

Pubs and restaurants have been told they can reopen from July 4, but they have been asked to keep a temporary record of all visitors for 21 days and pass this data on if necessary to help the NHS test and trace service manage any coronavirus outbreaks.

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Ed Entwistle, manager of Pour Sheffield, a craft beer house on London Road in Heeley, said he would comply but doing so made him ‘a bit uncomfortable’.

Speaking to Toby Foster on BBC Radio Sheffield, he said: “It does make me a bit uncomfortable taking people’s details. For one thing this is what they spent £12 million on a test and trace app isn’t it, which obviously has gone nowhere.

“The onus has been transferred to landlords. We’re meant to be doing the Government’s job for them now.

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“I will do it, obviously. I will do whatever I can to make sure that everyone who comes to our place is safe and happy but it does seem a little bit like unqualified people are being put in charge of it.”

Mr Entwistle added that he had taken the ‘difficult decision’ to wait a little longer than July 4 before reopening, ‘just to make sure we’ve got everything in place’.

He said a Twitter poll by the bar found that less than a third of those responding would want to come to the pub immediately or in the first two weeks of reopening, despite the fact table service would be in place.

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