Owners want to reopen restaurant maintaining 50% capacity

PBC News:  Bangladesh Restaurant Owner’s Association has demanded the government to allow them to reopen restaurants maintaining 50 per cent capacity.

Imran Hasan, secretary general of the association, placed a written statement in this regard at a press briefing on Saturday.

In the written statement, another demands include to give stimulus to the workers of this sector via mobile phone or assist them with food via specific cards, to give long terms loans with no or little interests from the SME sector as running capital to run their business, to give instruction to provide vaccines to owners-workers on an emergency basis considering the restaurant sector as front liners of the pandemic.

Some 30 lakh workers work in 60 thousand restaurants in divisional cities, districts and upazilas. About two crore people are involved in this sector,” the written hand note said.