The restaurant association has compiled proposals to help restaurants survive the lockdown. One proposal is to limit customers to two drinks per main meal served.The restaurant industry is pleading with the presidency to allow restaurants operating “beyond alcohol-related trauma hotspots” to sell alcohol to customers, provided they order a main meal.
Rasa argued that just as President Cyril Ramaphosa said the government would adopt a “differentiated approach” to deal with areas with far higher levels of Covid-19 infection and transmission — coronavirus hotspots — so the statistics relating to alcohol-related trauma should be used to regulate the sale and distribution of alcohol in restaurants.
In areas identified as hotspots for alcohol-related trauma, “a higher level of restriction is imposed and the ban reinstated”;While the lockdown is in effect, the legal drink driving limit be reduced to zero.