Detailed explanation of regulations for restaurants in Pattaya due to COVID-19

[webfact]

Detailed explanation of regulations for restaurants in Pattaya due to COVID-19

 

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Officials at Pattaya City Hall have provided Thaivisa with a detailed explanation of the regulations regarding the opening of restaurants in Pattaya amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

 

“Due to many announcements, both central and Chonburi Province. The City of Pattaya would like to help summarize the order in language for everyone to understand easily, as follows.

 

The restaurant business will be divided into 2 types.

 

1. Restaurants in the mall can only be opened to sell food to consume somewhere else (can't sit in the shop)....... according to the order of COVID19 committee, Chonburi province

 

2. Ordinary restaurants outside the mall:

 

- can be opened but on condition that you reduce the risk of spreading, as follows:

1. Customer temperature screening before entering the premises.

2. Alcohol is placed at a common point.

3. Reduce congestion by organizing the customer seating at least 1 meters apart.

4. Surface cleaning eg door knob handle, toilets.

5. The staff of the restaurant to wear hygienic masks

 

What is permitted:

 

Open-closing time (26 Mar. July 63) there is no fixed opening-closing time (but if it's open until 00.01 pm an officer may check if alcoholic beverage have stopped being sold)

 

Alcoholic beverages can only be sold only in restaurants licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, and only for the scheduled times of 11.00. am - 14.00 pm, and from 17.00-24.00 pm. Outside these hours the officer will take action.

 

Caution:

 

The business cannot be opened with a food license not yet granted. It is a bar, not a restaurant and cannot be opened according to the order of the COVID-19 committee, Chonburi province

 

Establishments that look similar to bars cannot be opened, according to the order of the COVID-19 committee, Chonburi province

 

The restaurant must look like a real restaurant, not a bar. For example, if any premises has music or live music, it is considered as a bar according to COVID-19 Committee, Chonburi province

 

The important thing is that you must ensure that your shop is a real restaurant, not a bar, or similar that looks like a bar. Because under these regulations, if you are arrested, you will not only be arrested for selling alcohol, but will be arrested for disobeying the order of the COVID-19 Committee, with a fine of 100,000 baht or imprisonment no more than 1 year, or both. The fine and bail of 100,000 baht!

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-03-27

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[johng]

Clear as mud,captain sir !

[Crossy]

Yup ^^^, clear as mud and so open to interpretation it's untrue typically Thai.

 

[smedly]

oh boy oh boy 

 

someone of influence is determined to keep these places open and working normally 

 

clue - who owns some of them

 

never seen such pile of double talk nonsense in all my life 

[scubascuba3]

Clear to me, which parts didn't you understand?

[bluesofa]

44 minutes ago, webfact said:

2. Alcohol is placed at a common point.

Does that mean everyone has to use straws to drink out of the same bottle placed at a common point?

Yes, I know that will ensure everyone has the best chance of contracting Covid-19 - but what does #2 really mean?

Answers on a virus-free postcard, written with a virus-free pen please.

[Crossy]

Isn't #2 about hand sanitiser?

 

[bkk6060]

Surprising I think most restaurants in the country are take out only.

[bluesofa]

42 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Isn't #2 about hand sanitiser?

Oh bugga me, you could perhaps be right there. That never occurred to me it might be sanitisers and not beer, etc.

Why can't they write 'sanitisers' then, if that's what they mean?

For goodness sake, I suppose asking a native English speaker to read it first would be a loss of face.

Still, better not to ask and not make it clear I suppose.

[marko kok prong]

To be honest i am surprised as people can go there an drink in the evening as if it were a bar,okay all you have to do is have a bowl of appetizers and say oh we will eat later,better if they just make them take aways.

[champers]

A bar not far from me have re-written their sign so they are now a restaurant. Just like that.

[Leaver]

Foolish. 

 

The restaurants must be forced to close for dining in, and allow for take away only.   

 

Decisions like this will just result in more cases of transmission, eventually leading to full shutdown.  Better to move to full shutdown now.     

[rtco]

6 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Clear to me, which parts didn't you understand?

Clear to me as well ????

 

Maybe it's not clear to those that still want to frequent a pseudo-restaurant and consume vast amounts of alcohol on which so may TV pundits rely on

[phetchy]

SNAFU

[brucegoniners]

This is not good. They need to limit restaurants to takeout and delivery or the virus will spread quickly.

[Rimmer]

Off topic removed

[fforest1]

6 hours ago, Leaver said:

Foolish. 

 

The restaurants must be forced to close for dining in, and allow for take away only.   

 

Decisions like this will just result in more cases of transmission, eventually leading to full shutdown.  Better to move to full shutdown now.     

Well if a full shutdown is going to happen any ways why not just keep open as long as possible...

[Leaver]

1 minute ago, fforest1 said:

Well if a full shutdown is going to happen any ways why not just keep open as long as possible...

Because keeping open as long as possible extends the period of time for the partial shutdown, with cases still coming in.  It's like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.

 

They should go to full shutdown, which helps when trying to play catch up with the spread of the virus.

 

Typical Thai mentality, thinking of a baht today.  No thought about tomorrow.

 

If they continue with their partial shutdown, or any shutdown is too brief, many countries around the world will get on top of the virus, while Thailand still remains a no go country, and there goes Thailand's tourism industry for the next 20 years, as tourists eventually holiday to other destinations.

 

For a country that relies heavily on tourism, particularly for direct, and indirect employment, swift and harsh measure from the start would have seen Thailand be able to recover their economy a lot quicker,  but no, make a few baht each day we can stay open and don't worry if that means we must close for months in the future.

[Almer]

6 hours ago, brucegoniners said:

This is not good. They need to limit restaurants to takeout and delivery or the virus will spread quickly.

Has spread or will spread even faster

[Almer]

Why are  Pattaya  restaurants allowed to remain open when the rest of Thailand is take away only ?

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[Almer]

1 hour ago, fforest1 said:

Well if a full shutdown is going to happen any ways why not just keep open as long as possible...

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[Kinnock]

Similar to the restaurant controls in Singapore.  Not everyone has a home with a full kitchen and a large fridge, and after allowing 500,000 visitors from China at the height of their outbreak, it would not make much sense to damage people's livelihoods after the horse has bolted, visited a boxing stadium, then trotted home to Isan. 

 

But I do think everyone should wear a 'sneezeguard' type mask when out of their home to help prevent spread to others.

[overherebc]

On 3/27/2020 at 3:12 PM, brucegoniners said:

This is not good. They need to limit restaurants to takeout and delivery or the virus will spread quickly.

Can I add the word 'more' between your last two words??

Meant in a nice way.