Here's how Bangkok bartenders are coping with a second alcohol ban
| Jan 18, 2021 After City Hall ordered Bangkok bars to stop serving booze indefinitely, citing rising Covid-19 infections, an uncertain future loomed for Bangkok’s bars. Or so it seemed. Bangkokians have always seemed to adapt effortlessly to crises, from floods to forced closures. Now, Bangkok bartenders are once again having to prove their resilience. With alcohol sales banned at bars, cafes, and restaurants for the second time in ten months—an ordinance that could cost the industry up to B9 billion in revenue, according to The Nation—bartenders and bar owners are not sitting idl...