{"id":408089,"date":"2020-06-16T19:10:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=408089"},"modified":"2020-06-16T19:10:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:10:53","slug":"these-businesses-can-open-at-advanced-level-3-lockdown-including-sit-down-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/408089\/these-businesses-can-open-at-advanced-level-3-lockdown-including-sit-down-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"These businesses can open at &#8216;advanced&#8217; level 3 lockdown &#8211; including sit-down restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of businesses would be able to reopen under an &#8216;advanced&#8217; level 3 lockdown, including sit-down restaurants &#8211; with a decision on the move expected on Wednesday, 17 June.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to small business development minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, who has spoken to various media this week.<\/p>\n<p>Ntshavheni told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.power987.co.za\/news\/sit-down-restaurants-hair-salons-to-open-under-advanced-level-3-ntshavheni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power 98.7<\/a>, that the decision to open sit-down restaurants again after nearly three months of lockdown, is necessitated by a lack of relief funds to support businesses in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact on the economy was severe and we went to cabinet after the survey was done and said we don\u2019t have enough relief measures to support small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are better off supporting businesses as they come back to the economy because now you are dealing with the viability of businesses,\u201d Ntshavheni said.<\/p>\n<p>South African restaurant closures are beginning to pile up, according to several restaurant bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The Restaurant Association of South Africa (Rasa) estimates that restaurants employ around 800,000 people in South Africa, while a new lobby group \u2013 the Restaurant Collective \u2013 says that the industry is ready, and desperate to open.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant Collective\u2019s 12 members, which include Tashas, Signature Restaurants, Sakhumzi restaurant of Soweto\u2019s Vilakazi Street, Piza e Vino, Ocean Basket and Doppio Zero, have a combined 512 sit-down restaurants around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Fast food operators have been able to provide delivery services for some time, and under current lockdown level 3, restaurants were able to re-open on 1 June for collections and deliveries. Sit-down service is still forbidden until lockdown level 1.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ntshavheni, the following businesses would be able to reopen under an advanced level 3 lockdown:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sit-down restaurants<\/li>\n<li>Informal restaurants serving taxi ranks and office parks<\/li>\n<li>Kasi-style South African street food vendors<\/li>\n<li>Hairdressers<\/li>\n<li>Tattoo studios<\/li>\n<li>Nail Parlours<\/li>\n<li>Body massage services<\/li>\n<li>Make-up technicians<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Hairdressers and salons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Criminal law advocate Carlo Viljoen filed papers with the High Court in Cape Town in May, ordering government to lift the ban on hairdressers and salons.<\/p>\n<p>Viljoen said he represents the interests of as many as 210,000 professionals. He claims that the country has 90,000 registered hairdressers and approximately 120,000 unregistered hairdressers.<\/p>\n<p>Sorbet Group also cautioned that a continued lockdown could see the entire grooming sector face bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>Sorbet, which has 220 salons across South Africa, said that the vast majority of its salons are owner-managed, who are dependent on their store profits as their only source of income.<\/p>\n<p>They employ approximately 3,500 persons, the majority of whom are trained as female beauty therapists, nail technicians, hair stylists and barbers, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Their employees are often the sole breadwinners in their families and support many dependants, which is estimated to be a further 20,000 people from disadvantaged communities.<\/p>\n<p>Ntshavheni told eNCA on Monday that her department has already completed the development protocols for the industries to open, however tattoo parlours were seen as problematic by health officials.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that a decision is expected by Wednesday (17 June) from the medical advisory council around the extra protocols needed for tattoo parlours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe protocols are out, we are ready with them,&#8221; the minister said of sit-down restaurants, hair salons, massage and other personal care services. &#8220;We are ready to open it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/407793\/lockdown-mistakenly-places-top-joburg-restaurants-into-business-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lockdown mistakenly places top Joburg restaurants into business rescue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of businesses would be able to reopen under an advanced level 3 lockdown, including sit-down restaurants, with a decision expected on Wednesday, 17 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":397895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-408089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408089"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408105,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408089\/revisions\/408105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}