A group of restaurants is heading to court to force the government to allow their patrons to drink alcohol with their meals.
For the three months of lockdown - April, May and June - restaurants could not trade at all and had no income, but they still had substantial expenses and suppliers to pay.
The group warned that if restaurants are not able to trade normally and these two “extremely restrictive” conditions remain in force - even just for the next week or two - an unprecedented wave of retrenchments would follow.
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