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PETALING JAYA: Malaysians tend to eat late, so the Malaysian Indian Restaurant Owners Association (Primas) is hoping that restaurants will be allowed to operate longer hours.
“With the latest SOP (standard operating procedure), we will need to close by 8pm – but people usually come out to buy their dinner later than that, ” said its vice-president C. Krishnan.
“Delivery services are likely to stop taking orders around 7.30pm, which will affect our business, ” he said, referring to the latest announcement that restaurants would be allowed to open from 8am to 8pm under new rules to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
The ruling will be enforced from Tuesday until June 7.
PETALING JAYA: Restaurant operators are appealing to the government not to completely ban dining-in under the latest round of movement control order (MCO 3.0), arguing that the minimum of two customers per table should be allowed to help them cope with expenses.
Eateries dismiss viraled news as fake 16 Mar 2021 / 10:09 H.
PETALING JAYA: Fake news has been spreading in social media about diners having to re-register on MySejahtera if they were to spend more than an hour in an eatery.
The truth is, there is no time limit for customers who are dining in at any restaurant.
Malaysian Muslim Restaurant Owners Association (Presma) president Datuk Jawahar Ali said Presma members are well aware of this fake news.
“We have advised them not to believe such things as it would create unnecessary problems for their customers,” he said yesterday.
“Our members nationwide are informed of any new standard operating procedures (SOP) via a WhatsApp group.”
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