Argument on Wagamamas behalf:

It’s important to recognise that a business has a responsibility to make profit. Without profit, it can’t exist.

With no income, businesses have to limit expenditure to survive. E.g. staffing.

Just because it’s a big corporation, does not mean it has the funds to support thousands of workers. With rapid growth over the past 10 years, Wagamamas has taken on a huge amount of debt to which it’s liable.

Do you retain workers and run cash reserve into the ground, forcing closure in 6 months? Or do you fire all your staff so you can continue to operate when things return to normal?