When Eat Out to Help Out was launched in August 2020 -- at the same time as similar domestic travel subsidy programs were also launched in Italy and Japan -- British people had endured a traumatic spring and early summer of social isolation and suffering. There was pain from the disease itself and just as much pain from the lockdown measures. If this scheme helped to "break the ice" for some people and nudge them to get out of the house and reintegrate with society to some degree, it almost certainly had social benefits that you are ignoring in your analysis.
Eat out to kill gran, more like.
When Eat Out to Help Out was launched in August 2020 -- at the same time as similar domestic travel subsidy programs were also launched in Italy and Japan -- British people had endured a traumatic spring and early summer of social isolation and suffering. There was pain from the disease itself and just as much pain from the lockdown measures. If this scheme helped to "break the ice" for some people and nudge them to get out of the house and reintegrate with society to some degree, it almost certainly had social benefits that you are ignoring in your analysis.