"We'll be on eight substantial meals a night and nothing to show for it except a stop watch and type 2 diabetes."
Phase 3 is so close we can almost touch it.
On June 29 pubs and hotels will welcome us into their premises once again with open arms as the easing of Covid restrictions continues.
But what will this new world look like?
The King of Hospitality Francis Brennan joined The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show to walk us through it.