Springvale sizzles into the New Year starcommunity.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from starcommunity.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Springvale restaurant owner Andy Dang had been prepared for a bumper Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day weekend.
Then with a few hours’ notice, a five-day snap Covid lockdown stranded his Hoa Tran restaurant with a tonne of noodles but no one to feed.
His tables closed from midnight Friday 12 February, a full list of bookings were cancelled.
Days of preparing pots of stocks, ordering foods for the weekend came to nought.
“We ordered so much stuff. Everything is thrown away,” Mr Dang said.
“It was so unexpected, so fast and so quick.”
Despite the annual Springvale Lunar New Year festival already being cancelled, the weekend’s celebrations had been hoped to help businesses recover some of 2020’s heavy losses.