Restaurants snapped shut | Dandenong Star Journal
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Springvale restaurant owner Andy Dang had been prepared for a bumper Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day weekend. Then with a few hours’ notice, a five-day snap Covid lockdown stranded his Hoa Tran restaurant with a tonne of noodles but no one to feed. His tables closed from midnight Friday 12 February, a full list of bookings were cancelled. Days of preparing pots of stocks, ordering foods for the weekend came to nought. “We ordered so much stuff. Everything is thrown away,” Mr Dang said. “It was so unexpected, so fast and so quick.” Despite the annual Spring...