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Author: Guo Xiaoqing
2020-12-30 08:00
Last update date: 2020-12-30 08:00
No dinning in restaurants, restrictions on each diners, early closing of bars, etc. are common phenomena this year. Originally, holidays should be the busiest time for restaurants, but this year, under the epidemic, the business of various restaurants has been hit hard. , And many restaurants are unable to maintain operations and closed.
Having said that, according to the record of "Openrice Hong Kong" (Openrice), as of November this year, nearly 950 restaurants have opened than those closed. In the second half of 2020, there will be 1.5 restaurants for every restaurant closed. The restaurant opens.
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Overview of restaurant operations under the epidemic ("Wednesday" section of this page)
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New restaurants opened in the epidemic market are most concentrated in Yau Tsim Mong, Central and Western Districts
According to Openrice statistics, a total of 417 restaurants opened in November this year, and 254 restaurants closed at the same time. 60% more restaurants opened than closed.
Taking Japanese cuisine as an example, 59 newly opened at the same time that 25 restaurants closed. It can be seen that although many restaurants closed during the epidemic, a considerable number of restaurants opened.
As of December 23, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has recorded 15,923 license registrations for restaurants. Compared with the same day last year, 2,332 licenses were newly registered licenses. At the same time, Openrice data also showed that there were more than 3,000 licenses from January to November. The opening of restaurants, it can be estimated that at least more than 2,000 new restaurants opened during the epidemic.
Among them, more than 400 are located in Yau Tsim Mong District and more than 200 are located in Central and Western District.
The venue has repeatedly closed party rooms, bathrooms, and nightclubs for more than five months
Although many restaurants have opened, the epidemic in Hong Kong has repeated this year, and there have been many local cases of unknown origin. In order to reduce crowd gathering, the government has repeatedly tightened social distancing measures and forced various places to close.
Among them, restaurants and bars are required to close early. Bars have been closed and closed early for about 100 days respectively. A total of 205 days of business in a year will be affected. For bars that are mainly open at night, it is equivalent to business losses in the past six months. Various places are also closed on different days.
In addition, party rooms, bathrooms, nightclubs and nightclubs have the most closed days. Since March, the three types of venues have been closed for about 160 days, which is equivalent to more than five months. Click the links below to see the closure of each venue.
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Closure of various places under the epidemic
▼No dinning in restaurants after 6 o'clock will be effective for two weeks from December 10th▼
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The biggest drop in bar revenue
The operating hours are affected, and the people are reducing eating out in order to fight the epidemic. The income of restaurants is greatly affected. According to the Census and Statistics Department, the total revenue of restaurants from January to September this year was 59.8 billion, compared with the same period last year. 86.4 billion less than 30%.
Among them, the bar's revenue fell the most, with the most serious decline of nearly 90% in August.
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actual income of various restaurants under the epidemic ("Wednesday" section of this page)
After fighting the epidemic for a year, the food, clothing, housing, transportation, and even work of Hong Kong people have been greatly affected. "Hong Kong 01" produced an interactive page to review the changes in Hong Kong people’s lives during the year. Finally, you can also participate in the mood questionnaire under the epidemic to find out how much it is People have the same mood index as you.
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