‘All doom and gloom’: thousands of Hong Kong restaurants shut down, suspend operations as Covid-19 cases bring harsh restrictions

Hong Kong’s famed restaurant scene is rapidly losing its shine, with thousands of outlets having shut or bracing for closure after being battered by strict Covid-19 rules amid the current surge in infections.“It is all doom and gloom for the city’s food and beverage industry now. They don’t have customers,” said Simon Wong Ka-wo, president of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades.He estimated that more than 2,500 of the city’s 17,000 restaurants had closed over the past two…

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