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Dearest loyal friends and customers,

This has been the most awful week in the 43 year history of our beloved Joe Allen. As you are all painfully aware the Coronavirus pandemic has gripped the nation and public safety is the most important thing for all of us to focus on right now, and so we have taken the incredibly hard decision to temporarily close Joe Allen

Nothing is more important to us than the safety and care of our customers and our staff, so with the Government and medical experts advising social distancing we feel it is the right and responsible thing to do.

Following the Prime Ministers speech on Monday our business has been devastated and yesterday we had to undertake the horrendous task of letting many of our amazing Joe Allen family go, and although we have done everything we can to treat those wonderful people fairly and with dignity and respect, nothing can prepare anyone for the sudden loss of income and livelihood, it was a truly black day and we are all grieving

I am so terribly sad, but by doing this along with the Governments promised lifelines we will take our core group of staff and rebuild our family, of which you are all such a loved and important part.

To all our regular loyal customers we will keep you updated by mailer and through social media. As soon as we are able to reopen we will be back with a new energy and vigour and we really hope to be able to offer new jobs to both those we had to let go and others who have lost their jobs in this catastrophe.

We will pull together and survive and hopefully be reunited with you all very soon. Be safe, you are all so precious to us

Cathy, Debbie, Stewart , Max and the whole Joe Allen family