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Normally the Imperial Hotel is a thriving pub with a spacious rooftop bar overlooking the stately Victorian Parliament building on Spring Street, at the Paris end of Melbourne.
But with Melbourne now going into its second week of lockdown the venue was shut on Wednesday, with not a customer or bar tender to be seen.
Australian Venue Coâs Paul Waterson, left, and his employee Giuseppe Lacava. The Imperial Hotel will go an extra seven days without pouring drinks after Melbourneâs lockdown was extended.Â
Arsineh Houspian
Located close to the MCG, the busy pub is popular with footy fans as well as soccer tragics, who would be expected to gather at the Imperial when the European Championship kicks off next week.
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Carlo Crolla, co-owner of the Edinburgh restaurant, took to the restaurant’s Facebook page to show his annoyance.
“Thank you to the 45 no-shows so far today,” Mr Crolla said. This is what I think of you!” he added, posing with his thumb down in the attached image.
On Twitter, Edinburgh whisky and ale bar The Bow Bar called out the increasing amount of no-shows seen at their venue this week. What s with people not showing up for bookings, especially groups,” a statement said.
Carlo Crolla from East Coast. Picture: East Coast/Facebook Be a decent human being and let us know. We have been knocking back 100s of requests all week.”