Nagpur: Despite high expectations, no sequence for the relaxation of the covid sidewalk in Nagpur comes on Sunday leaving hospitality industry hospitality.
Events like Valentine’s Day worked as ‘booster shots’ for restaurant revenues, but limited timings and limited capacity continued to play spoilsport, the owner said.
Toi talks with some great brand owners, who prefer not to be identified because social media messages show that some organizations take a rally to protest Valentine’s Day celebrations.
One such owner, who has an outlet in a busy conscious area, said, “In our industry, days like this (Valentine’s Day) and even the festival resulted in the increase in footsteps.
Considering what we have passed for the past two years, These days are very welcomed because this helps support income and cover losses.
“The demographic crowd of Valentine’s Day also changed quickly and it helped fancy restaurants too.
“The college crowd is always there, but they are looking for a pocket-friendly place so some cafes or fast food chains are destinations,” said other restaurant owners.
“The food court at the mall does a fast business in such cases.
But now young people and even married couples until the early 30s celebrate with dinner at a fancy restaurant.
Some star hotels will even provide a candle dinner experience,” he said.
But now with timing restaurants are limited to 10 nights, that the business segment can be affected.
“Even at home, the young couple starts dinner at 9:30 a.m.
or even later.
In Nagpur, the local authorities ask them not to just finish dinner but pay and come out before the clock hit 10:00,” said the restaurant owner realized.
“It’s like killing our business every day and especially on the day when we are guaranteed to see extra cover residential,” he said.
While R Collector R Vimala has written to the state government that is looking for sidewalk relaxation, so far there is no answer.
He put aside something that happened on Sundays too, it became a holiday.
The source, however, said the relaxation sequence was ‘almost guaranteed’ this week.