Coca Holding International Co, operator of the Coca sukiyaki and Mango Tree restaurant brands, is ramping up its international expansion to reduce risk incurred from the prolonged pandemic and outbreaks of coronavirus variants.
Restaurant operators are adapting their business strategies to cope with rising operating costs, mainly from higher prices of raw materials, oil and logistics.
Restaurant chains and shopping centres are welcoming the extended service hours and relaxed curfew announced by the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).
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11 Dining tables and chairs are put aside at a food court in Bangkok following the government s measures to ban dine-in at restaurants across the capital to curb the spread of Covid-19. Varuth Hirunyatheb
Eateries are braving the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis, with the government s latest announcement to ban dining-in at restaurants across high-risk areas including Bangkok through July anticipated to aggravate their plight.
Nongchanok Stananonth, assistant vice-president of marketing at SLRT, operator of Sizzler restaurant chain, said that with the new measure, 31 Sizzler restaurants out of 57 have had to stop dine-in service, providing only deliveries and take-aways. The latest Covid-19 control measures including a ban on dining-in at restaurants sound much like the tsunami that caught the eatery business off guard, Mrs Nongchanok said.