Restaurants and other fast food outlets which has been shut down for a while in order to curb the spread of the deadly disease Covid19 is set to open as citizens cites a massive sanitation work in the premises.
Restaurant and fast-food outlets which still remains closed in Port of Spain on Thursday, but rumours hit around the country for possible reopening.
There was no activity at TGIF, McDonalds, Mario's, Jenny's on the Boulevard, or any of the restaurants at MovieTowne.
According to one of the Managers of the restaurant Natalie Gordon who addressed the people of the normal regular maintenance carried out by his company, he said “We are doing regular cleaning, which is our general maintenance to make sure our premises are kept clean.
"We have been down for over two months, and we’re making sure everything is of the highest standard.
"We’re just like the rest of the country, waiting on the Prime Minister to say what’s happening.”
MovieTowne owner Derek Chin said the restaurants in the group, including Texas de Brazil, Jax International, Rizzoni’s and the cinemas, have been carrying out their normal maintenance.
“The restaurants always have to be in a certain level of hygiene and cleanliness, even if they’re not open. So basically what we’ll do is have a normal general cleaning.
"We don’t want to raise our hopes and have them dashed as we’ve had them a couple times already, and we haven’t notified our staff of anything at all.
“Some people seem to think the Prime Minister will open up the place and open restaurants specifically, but we’re going to wait for that announcement before we activate anything. We haven’t been told anything differently, we’re hoping with great anticipation that we can start getting back to normal, but we’ve been disappointed before.
"Basically we’re still in lockdown mode, we have a skeleton administrative staff, and we are basically concentrating on our operations outside of Trinidad.”
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