As part of the exacerbation of the closure following the Corona, it appears that food deliveries that have become widespread will be discontinued immediately • The restaurants are furious: "Do not understand this insistence"

The expected exacerbation of the partial closure, which may very well be completed tonight (Sunday), in line with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's expected announcement, is troubling many food enthusiasts and many restaurant owners and employees who are still active. The reason is that one of those aggravations in question is the immediate cessation of all food deliveries with the exception of deliveries and groceries, and in other words, the total closure of all remaining restaurants.

Shai Berman, director of the Restaurant and Bar Association, told Israel Today: "We have not yet received such a message. We have a telephone meeting today with the Treasury that we have initiated. We will discuss with them the economic plan presented by the Prime Minister and also ask them about the issue of deliveries. I hope we know more, but right now I don't know if it will stop or not. "

"If that happens, it means a complete halt to the industry. Today's activity is 15% of normal time, which is the share of shipments only. We do not see shipments as a lifeline to the industry. There are some who still do this and I assume it represents a cash flow for them. "If that stops then it's clear that businesses that rely on deliveries and that generate cash flow for them will hurt."

Managing Director of Strong Restaurants Together, Tomer Moore, added: "We are currently in Sisyphean work with all authorities in all offices: the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Health. We have not yet received information about this, but they want to reduce the activity from 30% to 15%. There will probably be traffic restrictions and this will affect shipments We have no certainty, but we have an understanding that this can happen. We are working to operate the shipping service because it is an essential service to the people and industry from what remains of it. This represents about 15% of all restaurants. The majority is already closed. "

Besides the economic matter why do you think the deliveries should stay?

According to Berman, "Every issue of shipment has a clear way of working. The couriers leave the shipment at the door and no contact at all. Everything goes through a payment app. That's why we don't understand this insistence. People need the shipment and want it, it's food. We see the writers Workers and there is a much more dangerous place and a time for infection. We don't understand that. "

Moore adds: "I can say that the restaurants are strict about hygiene. We work according to all the Ministry of Health's procedures, of course. And of course there is no contact between the couriers and the customers. All the employees work with gloves, both cleaning and cooking and shipping. So far, there has not been one infection due to shipments. We cook in high and high temperature. This is food that comes from heat and there is no fear of infection. Excepting and closing the deliveries will add sin to crime. This is also the way the delivery system is a complex system. Some are even losing money now and doing it as their employees' tool and toward it Customers. It's a matter of survival and social importance as it is. We're talking about sanity, too. People are eating their favorite restaurant during this period. "