HYGIENE, SOCIAL DISTANCING NORMS IN FOCUS AS RESTAURANTS, RETAILERS GEAR UP TO REOPEN
Restaurant operators and retailers have resumed business activities after the Central Government allowed them to re-open from June 8. According to a PTI report: Several Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) operators have redesigned and reorganised layouts of their dining facilities to adhere social distancing norms along with additional hygiene features, while some have also introduced home delivery and take-away.
QSR chain operator KFC India said the new guidelines would help people to resume their regular life. Assuring safety and well-being of its customers, the company has modified the restaurant designs to reinforce social distancing, and trained team members according to the new norms.
“We have modified the restaurant designs to reinforce social distancing, trained team members according to new norms and are implementing measures like distanced seating arrangements, demarcated waiting spots in the queues, controlled customer inflow,” Moksh Chopra, CMO, KFC India was quoted by PTI as saying.
Burman Hospitality, which is the Master Franchise Partner in India for Taco Bell”s, said it would re-open its restaurants with additional hygiene and safety measures, following social distancing norms both on the restaurant floors as well as in the kitchens.
“To reinforce this, we have been gaining knowledge from what other Taco Bell franchisees have been adopting globally and have already started introducing a number of features that will make us the safest restaurants in India,” Mandeep Singh Sethi, VP – Operations, Burman Hospitality was quoted by PTI as saying.
This story is from the June 2020 edition of Images Retail.
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