Restaurant Owners Disappointed with Fresh Curbs:
The Maharashtra government has introduced new restrictions in order to combat the increasing number of COVID cases. The government has declared night curfew, and weekend lockdowns till April 30. Under the new notification, malls, restaurants, and bars will be allowed to operate only for takeaways and parcels.
These fresh curbs will again bring down the entire hospitality sector to a standstill. It will nullify all the little recovery that the sector has seen so far. In the words of Shivanand Shetty, President, Association of Hotels and Restaurant, measures to fight the pandemic are turning out to be far more hard-hitting than the pandemic.
Under the effect on COVID, the industry is going through a rough time since last year. Many smaller players are wiped out as consumers remained wary of returning to crowded places.
With new restrictions in place, the hotel industry has now urged the state government to either allow them to operate for normal hours or compensate its employees, suppliers and landlords for the loss of business.
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