Thursday, July 22, 2021
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New restaurants in Singapore make the best of a stressful situation with dining in off the table again
SINGAPORE - New restaurants are feeling the heat from the changing rules for dining in.
Over the last two months, these went from no dining in to two people allowed to five vaccinated people to no dining in again. The latest rule will kick in from Thursday (July 22) to Aug 18 under Covid-19 phase two (heightened alert) of reopening.
Chef-partner Remy Lefebvre, who delayed the opening of Casa Restaurant by Remy Lefebvre at Chijmes until last month, said: Opening a restaurant is difficult and requires projection and experience, but in this environment, we don t even know what the projections are for next week.
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The announcement this week that the Sizzler restaurant is reopening is certainly good news for weary restaurant patrons, even if it is just for takeout and delivery initially.
The restaurant, located at 1156 NW Garden Valley Blvd., closed in August but recently was bought by the Sizzler corporation, Sizzler USA. Before that, it was a franchise owned by Double S Foods in Springfield, which owned eight Sizzlers in Oregon. All were shuttered this year due to the coronavirus; the Roseburg location was the last one to close.
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The restaurant was initially looking to open on Thursday or Friday, but that got pushed back to this weekend, said Sasha Shennikov, marketing manager for Sizzler USA.