Pune: Many restaurants in the city are ordered to capacity (50% of the total seating is permitted) until Monday, the sources of the Hospitality sector told Tii, while referring to the response recorded during the first weekend without “restrictions on Covid-19”.
Customers have booked pre-bookings for weekends since Thursday, and the restaurant has no room to accommodate more on Saturdays, especially with a rule of capacity of 50%.
A large waiting time outside the fine dining restaurant was reported in several parts of the city, especially in areas such as Korewadi High Street, Vimannagar, Kalyaninagar and Baner.
“The waiting time for this weekend’s table is around 35-60 minutes, but we have no better choice because the operational deadline is still limited at 10:00.
To prevent the possibility of crowding, the authorities must extend this deadline, especially for restaurants Fine-dining, where a number of customers who visited fully vaccinated, “Pressur Chandawarkar, Director, Malaka Spice told Ti.
He said a limited deadline could be maintained for road-side huts that led to cleanliness and social blasphemy norms, but operating hours could be expanded for food knot restaurants, which served educated guests, where the percentage of vaccination was higher.
Some restaurant owners say they have conducted an informal survey of their vaccination status coming, and have found that almost all who visit the upscale restaurant are fully vaccinated.
“Most walk-in guests arrive at rush hour, between 8-10 nights.
With limited seats, all the full popular restaurants this weekend, starting on Friday,” he said.
Indah Narang, President, United Hospitality Association, and agent owner Jack, told Toi, “because all restaurants operate at a capacity of 50%, customers experience a difficult time to get a place on Saturday.” The restaurant owner said the improvement of protective footsteps was seen because restrictions were appointed, but it seemed clearer on Friday-Saturday.
Sanjay Singh, General Manager – Radisson Blu Hotel, said, “We have seen an increase in the footsteps of the population falling with our multi-cuisine restaurants, bars and coffee shops after operational deadlines extended to 10 nights.
With this extension, some functions Lunch, including a wedding, has been converted from morning events to the night program.
“Vikram Shetty, owner Sadanand Resort and Sadanand Regency, said,” Some restaurants avoid taking reservations after 8-8: 30 because they have to wrap earlier than usual.
My mute restaurant also reported a spike of footsteps and was filled with a capacity of 50% over the weekend.
“A city-based penipling visited his favorite joints after months of saying,” All the bars in the Kondhwa area were really full on Saturday.
Someone waited almost 25 minutes in the lounge I visited.
Many customers stand, wait for empty chairs.
Some of them even b Entrepreneurs stop more people to enter the lounge to block crowding.
“(With input from Joy Sengupta)