Since June 29, the sub-districts and towns without medium-pandemic-risk areas and social pandemics within one week under the jurisdiction of Hongkou have opened up eat-in in an orderly manner. Eat-in, which has been suspended for a long time in some areas of Hongkou, comes back again.
Citizen Chen works in a foreign-funded enterprise near the North Bund. She and her coworkers go to Magnolia Plaza to have dinner in a restaurant that she once visited. "I'm very excited. Being able to eat in the restaurant means that I have returned to normal life on the whole", says Chen.
Chen Qinghai, the manager of Yingshui Furong Magnolia Store, tells that after receiving the notice of resuming eat-in on June 28, the store immediately released the reservation numbers on the online platform. Unexpectedly, the numbers in recent days were quickly snapped up. "The reservation volume of citizens is still high, and the seats in the morning and afternoon are reserved on the whole these days."
In Cailan Hongkong-style Snack Store located on B2 of Raffles City on the North Bund, many citizens are seated for lunch before 11:00.
According to the requirements of pandemic prevention and control, at present, the number of customers eating at the same time is limited through the measure of "eating at every other tables". "At present, the customer number in the store is limited to about 50%." Han Xingxing, the store manager, tells that once the customer flow in the store reaches the threshold, the staff will guide customers to take the reservation number and wait online through the WeChat official account and other platforms.
Similarly, the City Market, located on B2 of the shopping mall, is also very popular on the first day of the resumption of eat-in. After a mouthful of fried buns and a mouthful of traditional shaved ice in Shanghai, Aunt Ma says, "The long-lost taste is back."
According to Tao Yong, the project director of the City Market, 7 shops in the market provide eat-in service. In order to resume eat-in, professional institutions carried out disinfection and sterilization on the project on June 28. "A comprehensive professional disinfection and sterilization has been carried out in public areas, props and stores. From today on, our project party and stores will disinfect the environment, tables and chairs and other public facilities three times a day in the morning, noon and evening."
In the Sun Palace of Ruihong Tiandi, the dining places of many restaurants have been set up as required. Many customers come for lunch. Everyone enter the restaurants orderly after scanning the site QR code at the door. In order to ensure safety, the mall will carry out high-frequency disinfection and sterilization every 2 hours in the public area.