Let restaurants outside 'alcohol-related trauma hotspots' sell booze, Rasa suggests

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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.

The national coronavirus command council allows the sale and distribution of alcohol countrywide for all restaurants with a valid liquor licence;

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. Rasa stressed these were “by no means an exhaustive list of regulations and restrictions which can be imposed to regulate the sale and distribution of alcohol by restaurants”, and invited the government’s engagement in “generating a collaborative effort in restoring the industry”.“During the lockdown, restauranteurs have put their own livelihoods behind the needs of the country and shut their doors when told to,” Rasa said.

This is a reference to the immediate suspension of all sales and distribution of alcohol and the 9pm to 4am curfew announced by“All this while they are forced to watch as other industries are opened and receive relief packages to aid the rebirth of that industry. Rasa implores the presidency to give serious consideration to this proposal so the industry can at this point attempt to heal.”

The association has orchestrated a “million seats on the streets” protest on Wednesday at eateries, coffee shops and takeaway establishments across the country to highlight the massive impact lockdown regulations have had on the industry.GET IN TOUCH

 

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