Some restaurants are resorting to sell alcohol in bid to survive and save jobs amid Covid-19 ban
In an Italian bistro in an upmarket Johannesburg neighbourhood, smiling patrons chat at candlelit tables in a scene reminiscent of less-troubled times before the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Am I happy with what I’m doing? No,” said the bistro owner, who asked not to be named, adding that alcohol sales had saved him from firing half a dozen staff. “They’ve turned everybody into criminals.” Just doors down from the Italian bistro, Reuters found at least two more restaurants flouting the ban, seating drinkers in back rooms or serving wine in bottles labelled “nonalcoholic”.
In recession even before the pandemic, the economy is now set to contract by more than 7% in 2020 with a unemployment rate above 30%.
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