Gordon Ramsay loses almost £60m of trade during pandemic Speaking to The Sun, the chef revealed that he saw £10m worth of reservations wiped out overnight in December, with total revenue down £57.5m between 19 March 2020 and 3 February 2021. “Lockdowns have caused utter devastation,” he said, adding that initially he thought the impact of Covid would only last a couple of week. "It’s been long haul, and so hard to keep youngsters motivated. I feel pressure to give my younger staff, especially, some hope and the sense we can get out of this." Last week Ramsay He faced significant criticism at the onset of the Covid crisis last March when he made 500 staff across his London's restaurants redundant. However, it is understood that some of those redundancies were subsequently reversed, with the employees placed on furlough instead.