Saturday, August 14, 2021

"No jab no dine" can mean no customers for Australian restaurants and pubs: Ease of online dining & drinking, inconvenience of vaccine passports factors that can count against Australian Hotels Association hubris; evidence from Singapore should prove sobering

by Ganesh Sahathevan 


The Age and others have reported:

In a presentation to the government on Friday obtained by The Herald of the Sun, the Restaurant and Catering Association proposed easing restrictions in September to allow outdoor dining, with capacity-limited indoor meals, only for vaccinated people.

Meanwhile, the Australian Hotels Association has said it will support mandatory vaccination as a first step in restarting pubs. “We would support a platform where staff and customers needed to be vaccinated if that allowed us to reopen earlier,” said AHA NSW Director John Green.

To make this happen, the AHA is also calling for a special vaccination campaign for the tens of thousands of state hospitality workers, similar to today’s “traditional Sunday” at Sydney Olympic Park, many of whom are 18 to 35 years.

The AHA NSW and others might want to look at the reaction in Singapore .


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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Vaccine passports for dining out-Singaporeans are deciding that the cost and inconvenience is not worth the trouble, Australians more likely to do the same; businesses will suffer

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


Singapore's Channel News Asia (CNA), which is effectively government owned, reported a few days ago the new rules that will apply to eateries in Singapore, to comply with Singapore's rules for the vaccinated and unvaccinated. In short, the unvaccinated will be excluded from dining in and public events.

The story was published on the CNA Facebook page, which allows comments. Despite the Singaporeans legendary love of food, and their equally legendary capacity to comply with any rule, the comments revealed a general dissatisfaction with the rules, even if the carrot that was being dangled was food.

The general dissatisfaction seems to be with the inconvenience, and the costs. Subsequently many commentators seem to suggest that they would rather order takeaway, in person (or presumably online) and forego the eating out experience. 

Australians are less inclined to eat out, so the requirement that vaccine passports be presented to dine in, or drink in a pub, is likely to see pubs and restaurants suffer  reduced patronage,  reduced revenue and probably losses.


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See CNA Facebook link here 

https://www.facebook.com/ChannelNewsAsia/posts/10158467551477934



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  • Pamela Si Ying
    Don't understand seriously!! Unvaccinated can't dine in restaurants but 50% employees can return back to workplace..
    Who knows if that 50% are vaccinated or Unvaccinated and also by taking public transport, there's no safe distancing.
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  • Sandy Nate
    a great idea! wish my country like that rather than forcing people out to get vaccinated
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  • Dane Hou
    Why can't unvaccinated people dine-in in restaurants now? Last time when the situation was much more worse, we were still allowed to dine-in.
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    Cheryl Khoo
    I tot food court consider like coffee shop n hawker centre? 2 regardless vaccinate or not? I'm so confused on this.
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  • Vincent Lee
    If a simple rule of wearing a mask properly cannot be enforced effectively, I wonder how effective can the enforcement of complex dining rules?
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  • Kel To
    Dabao eat at home or office better. Why must dine out really don't understand








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