Eat Out to Help Out: This is how many people in Wakefield, Pontefract and Castleford took part in the discount dining scheme

Diners in Wakefield saved almost £1.6m in August with the help of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.
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Announced earlier this year, the scheme was designed to encourage people back into restaurants and cafes after months of strict lockdown restrictions.

Diners across the UK claimed more than 51 million meals during August.

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And it has now been revealed that people in the Wakefield district took advantage of the deal 285,000 times through the month, saving an average of £5.57 per meal.

Diners in Wakefield saved almost £1.6m in August with the help of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.Diners in Wakefield saved almost £1.6m in August with the help of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.
Diners in Wakefield saved almost £1.6m in August with the help of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.

In total, £1,598,000 of discount was claimed by restaurants over the course of the month.

A total of 295 restaurants signed up to the scheme across all four of Wakefield's parliamentary constituencies, not including chain restaurants with 25 outlets or more.

This is how much was saved in each of the constituencies:

Hemsworth

Total number of registered restaurants: 32

Total number of meals claimed: 37,000

Total amount of discount claimed: £231,000

Average discount per meal: £6.19

Morley and Outwood

Total number of registered restaurants: 67

Total number of meals claimed: 60,000

Total amount of discount claimed: £289,000

Average discount per meal: £4.85

Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford

Total number of registered restaurants: 76

Total number of meals claimed: 65,000

Total amount of discount claimed: £340,000

Average discount per meal: £5.25

Wakefield

Total number of registered restaurants: 120

Total number of meals claimed: 123,000

Total amount of discount claimed: £738,000

Average discount per meal: £6.01