‘Eat out to Help Out’: UK Offers Diners Some Tasty Morsels

A waiter poses for photographs as he waits for customers outside a restaurant, after it reopened following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain, on July 5, 2020. Peter Nicholls/Reuters

LONDON—Britain launched a $625 million “Eat out to help out” discount scheme to boost spending at restaurants, cafes and pubs that have been crippled by COVID-19, offering half-priced meals from Monday to Wednesday to get people spending again.

For the month of August, the scheme will entitle diners to a 50 percent discount of up to 10 pounds per head on their meal, finance minister Rishi Sunak said.