Food waste, cut shifts and contract renegotiations await restaurants in Victoria’s Covid-19 hotspots – prompting some to close entirely
Preeti Chhabra, co-owner of Lolo and Wren cafe in Melbourne’s Brunswick West, has been glued to her phone for the past couple of days. In the hours after Victorian premier Daniel Andrews announced that 10 Melbourne postcodes would revert to stage-three lockdown restrictions until 29 July due to recent outbreaks of Covid-19, she was standing down staff and cancelling food orders to restructure her business again.
“The orders have already been made last week based on the activity we had last week,” she told Guardian Australia on Wednesday morning. “A duck order was coming in today for $290; I had to scramble last minute and cancel it.”
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