Meeting for a meal or drink could have a new cost
Restaurants and bars must wrestle with who will pay for customer testing at the door
Photo credit: Guy Wolff
Restaurants and bars are preparing to allow customers to drink and eat indoors again from this weekend, but it is still unclear who will pay for thousands of rapid self-tests that patrons could be required to take before entering.
The country's roughly 2,700 hospitality businesses will receive 500,000 self-tests their guests can use, Labour Minister Dan Kersch told members of Parliament on Tuesday. After that supply averaging 185 tests per establishment runs out, the businesses will be on their own, Kersch said.