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<\/a><\/p>\nTourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has announced the new directions for sit-down restaurants during a media briefing today.<\/p>\n
Kubayi-Ngubane said sit-down restaurants are allowed to open from Monday, but they are only allowed 50 guests or 50% of their capacity – whichever is smaller.<\/p>\n
Screening questionnaires for all diners are compulsory and daily records should be kept of all guests who visited a restaurant.<\/p>\n
All diners must wear cloth masks or other protective gear which cover the mouth and nose, unless they are eating or drinking.<\/p>\n
All customers must be sanitised when entering the restaurant and should always be kept at least 1.5m apart when queuing, paying, or dining.<\/p>\n
Restaurants should offer menus in non-touch options and these menus should be sanitised after every use. No self-service buffets are allowed.<\/p>\n
The minister said there is no change in the regulations related to alcohol, which means no alcohol may be consumed in restaurants.<\/p>\n
When taking orders, waiters have to keep a safe distance of at least 1 metre from diners and all restaurant staff must wear masks.<\/p>\n
Waiters and other restaurant staff should also move in clear marked paths and keep a suitable social distance between each other.<\/p>\n
A reservation system is encouraged to manage demand and help to ensure capacity limits are adhered to.<\/p>\n
The image below provides an overview of the rules which Kubayi-Ngubane announced today.<\/p>\n
Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has released new directions for sit-down restaurants, which include mandatory screening, wearing a mask and keeping a register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":349798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[35,17936,58470,48273,63819],"class_list":["post-357833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-level-3","tag-lockdown","tag-mmamoloko-kubayi-ngubane","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357837,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357833\/revisions\/357837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nNow read: Court dismisses case against South Africa\u2019s smoking ban<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"