The City of Melbourne announced last week it would adopt a similar plan to New York City's open restaurants policy that allows hospitality venues to use the footpath and laneways adjacent to their establishment to serve customers and ensure maximum social distancing.
Ms Borsato said because the CBD was laid like a grid, little sunlight hit alleyways during the day, meaning businesses would have to fork out thousands for heaters and covers.Restaurant owner Caterina Borsato says the plan to open on the street is not practical for her."It's noisy and it's not private and the footpaths won't be wide enough for my sort of dining," she said.
"For us and a lot of old pubs that were never really set up for outdoor dining this is not an option. "And let's face it, we're in Victoria, we're not in Queensland where you can bank on seven days of sun, we know what Victoria is like; beautiful one day and disastrous the next minute." He said, according to Melbourne's roadmap, hospitality businesses could open up outside on October 26 if daily case thresholds were met, but 28 days later indoor dining would be allowed to begin.
England is an example of opening too soon. The USA is on target for 480,000 deaths by Jan 2021. It’s hard stay the course and we will get to a point we’re we gain some normality. If we don’t summer is only goin to be a lot worse.
Didn't the Federal government say at the end of March that they were got to hibernate the economy/businesses as needed. Another empty promise? Like the $2B bushfire reconstruction fund.
Just shut up shop. Save your money. It isn't going to change for small business. Utter destruction ahead
Great idea! Let's set up Parliament to return immediately. Shouldn't be too hard to scatter a few card tables around the Treasury Gardens, or just on the pavement on Spring St.
So because it doesn't work for some, it shouldn't be put in place for any? Until we find something that works for every single business, we should continue the lockdown and watch more businesses sink? FFS
It doesn't seem that long ago councils where banning curbside dining, now government wants to encourage it. The hypocrisy of it all is overwhelming. Remind me again how many dinners in Victoria contracted the virus from Aussie eating venues👂was that zero
'Andrews wants to adopt a similar plan to New York City's open restaurants policy that allows hospitality venues to use the footpath and laneways adjacent' the premier is oblivious that outdoor would be affected by rain n winter cold' Shop floor should be doubled on same rent
Stop whinging. It’s a pandemic, a natural disaster, you receive grants but you are still expected to manage. Everyone else is.
Andrews has a sociopathic lack of self awareness and should resign immediately
ABC’s gender war in men continues.
Victoria is governed by idealists... politicians who are ruled by ideology rather than logic and common sense
Any plan dreamt up by Andrews and Co is destined to failure simply because he has no idea what he’s doing and it has resulted in Victorian businesses and lives being trashed and worse it seems no one can do anything about it. The ALP are finished.
ABC’s gender war in men continues.