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Café Suffers $95K Loss As “70 Percent” Kitchen Staff Down With Covid Amid Omicron Surge

Here’s a look at how eateries are coping with manpower woes and more amid the current Covid wave.

Café Suffers $95K Loss As “70 Percent” Kitchen Staff Down With Covid Amid Omicron Surge

F&B businesses, already battered by dine -in restrictions over the past two years, are facing yet another challenge amid the Omicron wave: massive manpower shortages due to sick staff, leading to skeleton crews and sporadic forced closures (veteran hawkers like Mui Siong Minced Meat Noodle weren’t spared either – they’re closed from February 24 to March 3 after one of the hawkers got infected with Covid-19).

The wave has also affected delivery folk. Chef-owner Alan Lee of seafood restaurant chain Greenwood Fish Market says: “The lack of delivery drivers is very evident now. We are closing most delivery [slots in favour of] self pick-ups,“ he says. “We can’t even get drivers [when booking ahead]... so the food always ends up being late.”

All these mean the fear of even more revenue loss is very real, amid rising utility bills and cost of raw ingredients. 8days.sg spoke to seven F&B owners.

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