Restaurants see dip in business
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Malls start complying with SOPs; cinemas forced to cancel 50% bookings
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LAKSHMI NARAYANAN E
Malls start complying with SOPs; cinemas forced to cancel 50% bookings
With the State government allowing only 50% occupancy in restaurants and cinemas and imposing restrictions in malls from Saturday, the weekend plans of many came to a naught.
Many restaurants saw a reduction in footfalls. “The news of the second wave of COVID-19 has pushed down sales by 35%. As an industry, we are in fear because these fluctuations in business are not good for the sector,” said K.T. Srinivasa Raja, managing director, Adyar Ananda Bhavan. The number of families visiting eateries, too, had come down. The only silver lining was that there had been no impact on orders received through delivery apps, he said.