Halifax restaurants better prepped for third shutdown
Websites are up, contactless delivery is in place and we re all hopeful the latest lockdown won’t last. Today, Halifax restaurants didn’t set any tables lunch. They aren’t open for after-work drinks on Friday, and they won’t be taking reservations for weekend brunch either. That’s right, for the third time since the pandemic began 13 months ago, Halifax-area restaurants are closed to dine-in service. “After talking with my team about the cases they were investigating it is clear that strong measures at this time is an absolute necessity,” said top doc Robert Strang yesterday at an impromptu COVID-19 briefing.
HALIFAX A disastrous year for the restaurant industry in the Maritimes continues, as restaurants, bars and cafes that survived the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic are now trying to stay afloat during the second wave. The director of Saint John’s uptown district says restaurants and bars are struggling in a big way, at a time when business is usually strong. “They usually are making hay now, and then that puts them through for the first quarter, and that gets them toward the spring and into the patio season,” says Nancy Tissington, the executive director of Uptown Saint John.