By The Straits Times
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In May, an itaewon club organization turned dominance into a ghost town.The city’s 2154 clubs were ordered to close and allowed to reopen with restrictions at the end of June.
When consumers began returning in July, when the number of local infections fell to a number, Vatos took the most recent hit: nine o’clock at night.Restriction of recovery imposed last Sunday (August 30) to combat a sudden accumulation of cases.
South Korea reported 21,010 cases on Saturday (September 5).About a quarter is August.
“It seems that Covid-19 is a great tyrant who knocks you unconscious and won’t let you get up,” said Vatos co-founder Juweon Kim.
To minimize costs, it had to reduce its 60-70% and shorten operating hours.
“Many restaurants have closed, but we force ourselves to stay open.It’s like a form of marketing, to say that Vatos is open, at least at the time of delivery,” Kim told The Straits Times.
He added that delivery sales increased from 20 to 30 according to the penny, but that this is not enough to make up for the 85 to 90 cent consistent with falling cents on the income of places to eat, some of which came from the bar.
Kim said the pandemic had led them to take a closer look at their business style and locate new profit channels, such as making Vatos-branded home-cooked kits for sale online or at retail outlets and convenience outlets.
“Covid-19 is turning the game, the new standard,” he said.
But there are also “opportunities in confusion,” he added, noting that they were going to get a prime location in the dazzling Gangnam for their fourth branch.
Itaewon is the only one wounded.
Nightlife centers in Asia have been criticized when the pandemic disappeared after being first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December.
Globally, there are more than 26 million instances and more than 878,000 deaths, India is the most affected country in Asia and the top 3rd affected in the world, after the United States and Brazil, with 4.03 million instances and more than 69,000 deaths, according to Worldometer knowledge collection.
Bangalore, India’s bar town, has noticed that nightlife has been extinguished since March, when the government imposed a national shutdown.
The business collapsed and many of the 1,330 bars had to close.
Some have nimbly replaced paints to survive, staying open with fewer staff, negotiating reduced rents and changing menus. The city’s 57 microbreweries have lobbied the local government to allow the sale of beer to go, once banned due to complex laws .
“With food on site and beers to go, we must stay afloat,” said Sibi Venkataraju, co-founder of Roof, Bangalore’s oldest microbrewery.
Once a crowded, statusless pub goes on Saturdays, Roof has had only a quarter of its own old consumers in the last six months.
India’s passing government has allowed bars to serve alcohol since 1 September, but bar owners say the larger group, which drinks more, still hesitates to faint.
“A younger crowd shows up than the usual crowd. They get food and some non-alcoholic cocktails and for two or three hours,” Mr. Venkataraju said.
“The blockade made other people need to spend time with friends, I guess.”
The numbers are suggestive in Malaysia’s nightlife.
Most sectors of the economy opened in June, but clubs, pubs and bars serving food along with alcohol were able to resume operations until midnight.About a portion of the country’s 6,600 nightly institutions serve alcohol.
Cher Ng, director of Trec, which houses clubs such as Zouk KL and Iron Fairies, said they were focusing on serving food and alcohol to weather Storm Covid-19.
“We can’t do DJs or live bands, or play music too loud because we operate under the pretext of a bar and a restaurant,” he said.”This has reduced our revenue by approximately 75%.”
As an owner, Trec also helps tenants by offering discounts on rent and loose parking.”We also have some tenants with licensing programs to turn their existing spaces into bars-restaurants or cafes,” Ng said.
In Hong Kong, food and beverage players temporarily adapted to adapt to the blows.
When the government ordered the closure of bars and pubs in mid-July, when the third wave hit, rock and roll bar co-owner Beckaly Franks and her team temporarily brought in a coffee device and came up with snack concepts for the Pontiac, a popular 700-square-foot downtown water well, in a coffee shop, in less than 48 hours.
The restaurant at the time was only allowed between five a.m.6 p.m.
“So we closed the doors (like a pub) and opened at 11am and you know, we had this day in a cafe until 6pm,” he said.
Restoration hours have been extended until 10 p.m.September 4: when the third wave of the pandemic disappears.
Bars, pubs and nightclubs were forced to close for the first time from late March to April, at the time of the pandemic wave.The repressed call exploded when they re-opened in early May, putting these institutions in a lifeline.
Hong Kong has recorded more than 4,800 cases shown, totaling more than 90 deaths.
In Beijing, nightlife is slowly returning to life after being hit by the pandemic and the closure of a working-class club district.
Sanlitun, a popular nightlife destination, was severely affected and, after being allowed to reopen in May, was forced to close the wave of the moment.
Although there were no exact figures, players reported that about 30-50% of the bars closed due to the pandemic.
Gourmet bar owner Joe Hou, whose clientele is more commonly expatriate, had to leave to attract new local consumers by expanding the menu to include dishes such as rice dishes.
“We had to lower our level on the ground, so now I paint at the bar, while my wife is the waitress.Otherwise, we may not survive,” he said.
China reported 90507 coronavirus and 4735 deaths.
The scenario is gradually – Beijing hasn’t noticed any new case for almost a month – revelers are starting to reappear.
At the One Third club, the only indication of an ongoing pandemic is the mask that hangs from the elbows of visitors dancing all night.
“It’s been almost nine months since my friends and I had a night like this because we were all worried before,” said Shelly Feng, 25, who works in finance.
“Now that everything is going to get better, we’re making up for lost time,” he laughs.
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