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Covid 19 coronavirus: Closing time - why some Auckland restaurants won t survive a fourth lockdown
5 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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At alert level 3, restaurants and cafes can only open for contactless takeout. Photo/Sylvie Whinray
At alert level 3, restaurants and cafes can only open for contactless takeout. Photo/Sylvie Whinray
Summer didn t save them and now they re back in lockdown. The future is bleak for inner-city restaurateurs, reports Kim Knight.
A man from New Zealand walks into a restaurant and sits down.
Lucky bastard.
That s
it. That s the joke, as told recently on Twitter. In the middle of a global pandemic, when thousands of restaurants had gone to the wall, New Zealanders were still choosing between the chicken or the fish. If you didn t laugh, you d refinance your house - because perception is not always reality. ....

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