Pattaya restaurant owners once again reduced to take-away only to “fight Covid-19”, many decide to close completely temporarily, others very unhappy

[BritManToo]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

During previous closures, especially the first closure last year, when Covid-19 was still novel, most restaurant owners understood and supported the closures. The overall mood has now changed in Pattaya, with many angry, asking why the vaccine program isn’t moving at a quicker pace (in their opinion) or why restrictions such as allowing only outdoor dining or capacity limits could not be implemented versus a complete ban on dining in at restaurants.

Why are shopping malls essential?

But small restaurants not essential?

[NanLaew]

12 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

Especially locations like Pattaya have a structural problem. It has to decide if it wants to continue be a big red light district with many entertainment venues or if it also wants to have other businesses/companies that don't depend on tourists.

You don't mean to suggest that Pattaya's much heralded shift to family vacations and quality tourists is dead in the water, do you?

[BritManToo]

3 hours ago, Mickeymaus said:

Often I watch these people eating their daily breakfast in one of the cheap Charlie restaurants. Eggs, bacon, perhaps a piece of fatty sausage, toast bread and coffee. Every day the same. Perhaps now they find a healthier alternative. 

 

My favourite breakfast!

Needs a bit of fried liver to complete it.

[BritManToo]

2 hours ago, Mickeymaus said:

Yes. Normally In the evening I see the same alcoholics sitting in front of their beer at their favourite bars. But they are closed now. If you live here many years then you know many people from seeing. 

Alcoholics want to stop drinking but can't.

I'm a drunk.

[ChipButty]

5 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Alcoholics want to stop drinking but can't.

I'm a drunk.

Im thinking of installing a draught beer pump at home I might build a little bar, sick of these bottles

[Mickeymaus]

15 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Im thinking of installing a draught beer pump at home I might build a little bar, sick of these bottles

Yes, perhaps this is the way out. Build your own bar at home. Entertainers you can order online. 

[ChipButty]

5 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

Yes, perhaps this is the way out. Build your own bar at home. Entertainers you can order online. 

Yeah Facebook is loaded with them at the moment

[Thomas J]

I "think" that these Covid measures are nothing more than the governments way of showcasing it "is doing something".  They don't care if the restrictions really accomplish anything.  At best the restrictions merely kick the can down the road.  When you look at various countries and states in the USA those employing identical lockdown, quarantine, mask mandates etc have markedly different Covid infection rates.  If they were effective, those countries or states with strict measures would have demonstrably lower rates.  They don't   

At the very least some common sense should apply.  If a restaurant as outside dining, and sufficient spacing between tables the risk of covid transmission is near zero.   All of these measure  might possibly, could be reduce the number of Covid cases.  However there is a 100% certainty that closing the economy will severely cripple the economy and put people in desperate financial distress.   I suspect you will see crime increase as people without money turn to criminal activities to survive. 

[Foghorn]

5 hours ago, Mickeymaus said:

Often I watch these people eating their daily breakfast in one of the cheap Charlie restaurants. Eggs, bacon, perhaps a piece of fatty sausage, toast bread and coffee. Every day the same. Perhaps now they find a healthier alternative. 

My son said there was a creepy man watching us eat

[fulhamster]

3 hours ago, BestB said:

Putting aside the obvious, government could have offered tax cut or refund , ss reduction , electricity rebate , sign tax waiver for the time being business’s forced to close or reduce hours or change its natural way of operating but nothing . No assistance of any kind , no reductions , no discounts.nothing.

 

I am still afloat but have lost everything , as in I am totally broke . All I have left is faith and hope but unsure how much longer I can keep going .

 

over 15 years in business , paying company and personal tax, I got nothing in return. And most frustrating part, even though ordered to close for most part of the year, local gov wants full amount sign tax and applying late payments fee and interest 

We had a 15 baht deduction on our water bill.

[fulhamster]

39 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

Yes, perhaps this is the way out. Build your own bar at home. Entertainers you can order online. 

But you still have to drink alone

[Ralf001]

56 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Im thinking of installing a draught beer pump at home I might build a little bar, sick of these bottles

Ive a tap setup in my bar, friends are too scared to come and drink at the moment.

I brew my own beer though but occasionally will grab a Brew Dogs IPA keg for special occasions.

[Phoenix Rising]

4 hours ago, Olmate said:

Perhaps you could find something else to watch!! ????

That clearly would not do as he then wouldn't be able to climb onto his high horse and pontificate us to tears. 

[EVENKEEL]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

My favourite breakfast!

Needs a bit of fried liver to complete it.

Wash it down with a Spy ahahaa

[Mickeymaus]

22 minutes ago, fulhamster said:

But you still have to drink alone

If you built your own bar at home you can invite friends and gather experience how to run a bar. When you have enough knowledge and Pattaya will be opened again you can buy one of the many abandoned bars and make a fortune. 

[ChipButty]

39 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Ive a tap setup in my bar, friends are too scared to come and drink at the moment.

I brew my own beer though but occasionally will grab a Brew Dogs IPA keg for special occasions.

Ive got no friends so no worries there, 

[BritManToo]

Just now, ChipButty said:

Ive got no friends so no worries there, 

I used to have friends but they all died ..... none from COVID.

[ChipButty]

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I used to have friends but they all died ..... none from COVID.

Thats what happens when we get old

[Mickeymaus]

4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I used to have friends but they all died ..... none from COVID.

Cirrhosis? 

[BritManToo]

4 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

Cirrhosis? 

Only one, cancer got most of them.

[Mickeymaus]

5 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Only one, cancer got most of them.

I saw many people here dying from cancer too. And the tragic thing is that you see all their suffering until the end. 

[LoliLoso]

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Im thinking of installing a draught beer pump at home I might build a little bar, sick of these bottles

Would you invite me for a pint ?????

[Joe Farang]

21 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

I saw many people here dying from cancer too. And the tragic thing is that you see all their suffering until the end. 

Do you stalk people in hospitals also?

[The Hammer2021]

The wholesale destruction of the economic and social life of a city.

[BestB]

3 hours ago, fulhamster said:

We had a 15 baht deduction on our water bill.

I bet it saved the day ????

[GrandPapillon]

8 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Ive no doubt you seem the same people... the part where you mention you see they eat the same thing everyday... thats either BS or you a weird creepy stalker type person.

why would anyone going to the same place everyday order something different there?

[Golden Triangle]

8 hours ago, Mickeymaus said:

Often I watch these people eating their daily breakfast in one of the cheap Charlie restaurants. Eggs, bacon, perhaps a piece of fatty sausage, toast bread and coffee. Every day the same. Perhaps now they find a healthier alternative. 

I suppose you eat Muesli with yoghurt and an orange juice, bloody disgusting ????????

[GrandPapillon]

To be honest, I used to eat at those cheap places, and it was great, after a big night out, but that was 30 years ago ????

[Ralf001]

34 minutes ago, GrandPapillon said:

why would anyone going to the same place everyday order something different there?

What sort of feral eats the same food day in and day out ?

[Espanol]

9 hours ago, Olmate said:

Perhaps you could find something else to watch!! ????

 

Waiting for clubs to reopen  ????