After coronavirus restrictions lift, cafes and restaurants will change. Here's how
ABCWhen guests arrive at Fabio Dore's restaurant he feels like he is welcoming them into his own home: the outside space is modelled on his mother's garden in Sardinia and the menu is packed with the Italian flavours he grew up with. "If customers book but then don't show up then, with only 10 people per sitting, that can destroy the entire night's takings," says owner Kevin Bowen. "It's been a bit challenging, but we've marked out the whole place, obviously with distancing between tables," says Pervez, who has operated the restaurant since 2005. Just up the road from Dore's restaurant is the Kafeine cafe where manager Lee says a pivot to takeaway has saved the well-known local café and he expects the takeaway business to remain strong. Diners will find a new routine Carlo Larocca, with his son Luca, was an "early adopter" of the lockdown lifestyle but also one of the first to return to his local cafe.
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