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Written by: Zhang Jiamin
2020-12-02 15:43
Last update date: 2020-12-02 15:46
The fourth wave of the new crown pneumonia epidemic is severe. The government recently announced tightening of epidemic prevention measures. Starting today (2nd), the number of people per table in restaurants will be tightened from 4 to 2 people, and regulations such as restaurants must continue to be half full.
The reporter inspected the Wan Chai area during lunch time today. Many office workers waited outside the restaurant for takeaways. However, there was not a lot of people eating at restaurants and some restaurants were not full.
Some restaurant employees pointed out that since last week, the flow of people began to decrease, which is estimated to be related to the implementation of work-from-home in some companies. In response to the tightening of the gathering restrictions, the number of customers has dropped by nearly half today.
At about 12:00 noon, on Jaffe Road in Wan Chai, where there are many restaurants, it can be seen that the restaurant complies with the two-person-one-table rule, and there are partitions in each room.
Many office workers go out to buy takeaways on the street, and many people line up outside the restaurants to buy takeaways or wait to get them, but some restaurants are not full.
A western restaurant that has been open for about a year, at about 12 noon, there are only a few customers in the restaurant.
Ms. Liao, an employee, recruited business outside the store. She said that the flow of people on the street has decreased significantly since last week. It is estimated that with the development of the epidemic, some companies have implemented work-at-home related; and the tightening of the gathering restriction order today has caused the flow to fall again, only Half of the weekdays, "in the past, there were a lot of people in a few streets", and it is expected that the business volume will also be halved.
Liao said that in the past, three to four people would eat together in the lunch market. Many diners took the last chance to have lunch with their colleagues.
She said that although the take-out business increased by about 10% during the epidemic, she still "would not help much."
She also pointed out that the opening of the restaurant is encountering social movements and the epidemic. Although there has been no layoff of employees, it is difficult to assess the situation afterwards.
Restaurants specializing in take-out are also affected. Restaurant manager Mr. Li said that the flow of people on the street has decreased significantly today, and business has been significantly reduced by about 30% recently.
Office workers: 4 people per table to 2 people in a restaurant has little effect
Mr. Lai, who works in Wan Chai, said that the tightening of the table limit has little effect on him, because since the epidemic, he has become accustomed to taking takeaways back to the company for food.
However, he believes that the measures of restricting two persons on each platform have little effect on epidemic prevention. "There is no real restriction on public activities. The gym room (fitness room) is not prohibited. In fact, 4 changes and 2 are not very different." He added, Since the government announced the implementation of working from home, there are fewer people in the car, but compared with the third wave of the epidemic, "it is not obvious."
Mr. Ma also said that during the epidemic, most of the takeaways were bought back to the company, "returning to the company to eat is safe." He said that there is no way to tighten epidemic prevention measures during the epidemic, but he believes that "the four changes and the two are not too big, and there is always dine-in food." "Ms. Chen, who is holding multiple boxes of takeaways, said that she had to buy takeaways for four colleagues. When asked about the impact, she said she was used to frequent changes in government epidemic prevention measures.
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