Health Standard Required for Bangkok Eateries Selling Liquor

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK, Nov 1 (TNA) – The operators of eateries who want to sell alcoholic beverages in Bangkok must meet the Amazing Thailand Safety & Health Administration (SHA) standard, said Pongsakorn Kwanmuang, spokesman of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.

 

Mr. Pongsakorn said that the communicable disease committee of Bangkok urged eatery operators to improve their premises to meet SHA and close their venues at 9pm as ordered.

 

Operators can seek SHA evaluation at thailandsha.com. After they receive a SHA logo, customers will evaluate them via an application.

 

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[Walker88]

For those restauranteurs foolishly operating under the assumption that time is linear, this announcement---coming as it did AFTER venues opened for the day and believed they could serve alcohol---may well have come as a surprise.

 

Venues were already serving when this announcement came out on Monday, 1 November. A senior LE official, in a press release, threatened to bring harsh action against eateries selling demon alcohol without the 'previously unknown requirement' of having an SHA cert.

 

I was sitting in a venue, albeit without a fermented libation, and the staff---upon hearing this 'previously unknown requirement'---was working hard trying to access the thailandsha.com website. The site was being overrun by venues trying to avoid the heretofore mentioned 'harsh actions' and get this SHA cert, so the pages and forms would not load. One wonders if any 'harsh actions' were taken simply owing to the inability to access the official government site, plus venues being totally unaware such a requirement had been mandated (which it wasn't until AFTER the fact).

 

The rollout of this relaxation of restrictions was handled---how should I say---less than smoothly.

[ChaiyaTH]

First raids already took place an hour ago.

[fangless]

P!ss ups in breweries come to mind!

[MasterBaker]

should be done last month, now it's too late

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

BANGKOK, Nov 1 (TNA) – The operators of eateries who want to sell alcoholic beverages in Bangkok must meet the Amazing Thailand Safety & Health Administration (SHA) standard, said Pongsakorn Kwanmuang, spokesman of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.

Just an idea...

[mikosan]

14 hours ago, Walker88 said:

For those restauranteurs foolishly operating under the assumption that time is linear, this announcement---coming as it did AFTER venues opened for the day and believed they could serve alcohol---may well have come as a surprise.

 

Venues were already serving when this announcement came out on Monday, 1 November. A senior LE official, in a press release, threatened to bring harsh action against eateries selling demon alcohol without the 'previously unknown requirement' of having an SHA cert.

 

I was sitting in a venue, albeit without a fermented libation, and the staff---upon hearing this 'previously unknown requirement'---was working hard trying to access the thailandsha.com website. The site was being overrun by venues trying to avoid the heretofore mentioned 'harsh actions' and get this SHA cert, so the pages and forms would not load. One wonders if any 'harsh actions' were taken simply owing to the inability to access the official government site, plus venues being totally unaware such a requirement had been mandated (which it wasn't until AFTER the fact).

 

The rollout of this relaxation of restrictions was handled---how should I say---less than smoothly.

Your information is incorrect.  This information was publicly released on the 30th October.  Not only that, there was an article in the Bangkok Post that day as well. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2206683/city-hall-alcohol-in-restaurants-only-until-9pm?fbclid=IwAR38MBuhcl_iYB9FU2-EbkOInhDHCctf51JQun2td_TH6X7DQThJKiees1E

[KhunLA]

Which is it ... must or urged ...

 

"The operators of eateries who want to sell alcoholic beverages in Bangkok must meet the Amazing Thailand Safety & Health Administration (SHA) standard, said Pongsakorn Kwanmuang, spokesman of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.

 

Mr. Pongsakorn said that the communicable disease committee of Bangkok urged eatery operators to improve their premises to meet SHA and close their venues at 9pm as ordered."

[charmonman]

38 minutes ago, mikosan said:

Your information is incorrect.  This information was publicly released on the 30th October.  Not only that, there was an article in the Bangkok Post that day as well. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2206683/city-hall-alcohol-in-restaurants-only-until-9pm?fbclid=IwAR38MBuhcl_iYB9FU2-EbkOInhDHCctf51JQun2td_TH6X7DQThJKiees1E

Wow. They were given two whole days.