IN PICTURES | Limping restaurants fight for a seat at the table

A 200m-long empty table with 1,000 seats in Wellington, Cape Town, to raise awareness of the job losses and income within the tourism industry due to the lockdown​ and curfew regulations.The restaurant industry took to the streets on Wednesday to compel the government to allow alcohol sales for licensed sit-down restaurants.

“People are fed up and feel they have to do something. Things are going badly because people are not yet excited to go out. Unemployment means a lot of the population cannot afford restaurants. There is no support to help the industry. The sit-down restaurants are worst affected. A lot of what’s going on is no one’s fault,” Harding said.

Chefs, waiters, winery workers, hoteliers and tourism operators protest for #JobsSaveLives in Cape Town’s CBD.The 49-year-old said about 18 full-time employees were sitting at home. “It’s difficult because there are many people who are in this industry of alcohol, and many of us depend on this business to support our families. It’s a lot of people struggling because of this.”He said if the ban on alcohol were not lifted soon, the business wouldn’t survive.Restaurant workers protest in Norwood, Johannesburg.Mozambik restaurant co-founder Brett Michielin said he hoped that President Cyril Ramaphosa was watching and taking note of the protests.

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