{"id":389,"date":"2020-08-11T22:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T17:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2020-08-11T22:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T17:01:56","slug":"govt-imposes-ban-on-dining-table-services-in-hotels-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Govt imposes ban on dining, table services in hotels, restaurants\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KATHMANDU-The government has reimposed its ban on dining facilities and serving foods at tables by hotels, eateries and restaurants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making public the cabinet decisions on Tuesday, Minister for Finance and Communication and Information Technology, Yuba Raj Khatiwada, said that the government decided to restrict restaurants and hotels from offering dining and table services due to growing cases of COVID-19 in recent days. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the restaurants and hotels will be allowed to provide take-away services to their customers, according to Minister Khatiwada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe had decided to reopen hotel and restaurant businesses. Now, the government has decided to provide hotels and restaurants food takeaway services to their customers,\u201d said Minister Khatiwada, who is also the government spokesperson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Earlier on July 20, the government had decided to allow hotels and restaurants to resume their services. However, the cabinet meeting held on Monday decided to restrict them to provide only food takeaway services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decision to restrict hotels and restaurants to take away services comes in the wake of the rise in the COVID-19 cases in recent days. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe government decided to allow only takeaway services as these places started to get crowded with people not wearing face masks by flouting health safety measures,\u201d Minister Khatiwada added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU-The government has reimposed its ban on dining facilities and serving foods at tables by hotels, eateries and restaurants.\u00a0 \u00a0Making public the cabinet decisions on Tuesday, Minister for Finance and Communication and Information Technology, Yuba Raj Khatiwada, said that the government decided to restrict restaurants and hotels from offering dining and table services due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - 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