'Soups up' at local cafe reopening as soup kitchen
The fast-food industry is readying itself for level four of the lockdown restrictions. Food outlets, restaurants and other eateries had to close their doors when the total lockdown was imposed over a month ago
From Friday (1 May) government will start to relax some regulations. And Trade and Industry says restaurants will be allowed to deliver food to people at their homes between 9 in the morning until 8pm.
We will have to observe a daily curfew from 8 o' clock until 5am.
One KZN restaurant says it won't be business as usual.
Bellevue Café in Kloof says it's reopening its doors this week but will swap bistro bites for large pots of hot meals. Guy Cluver says they're going to run a soup kitchen, feeding hundreds of hungry people. They're teaming up with local NPO, Zero-2-Five Trust.
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"We discussed the many families in our rural communities that have been so badly affected by our national lockdown, with a real emphasis on kids who receive their majority of meals at school, as well as the elderly and sick."
Cluver says the lockdown's hit the pockets of waiters who rely on the tips they get from customers.
"Our businesses have obviously been shut down for the last five weeks and all my staff are sitting at home."
"My kitchen staff and permanent employees have all received their UIF and that process went really well, I was able to pay everyone on Friday last week which is a huge relief but the hardest-hit members of my team have been the waiters as a bulk of their earnings come from tips."