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Wellington restaurateur Mike Egan is preparing Monsoon Poon for a grand reopening for level 2.
“I’m really excited. It’s like opening a restaurant for the first time,” he says.
“It takes a couple of days, it’s not like you could come half an hour before the service. So the chefs are cooking broths and making sauces, and we have to make sure that the suppliers have products for us.”
But he also felt the big drop in monthly restaurant spending during the lockout.
“We all guess it because we can see our own figures, it is horrible to see it in black and white.”
Another consequence in black and white is job cuts. Auckland SkyCity proposed on Monday that there would be 700 more layoffs.
Table games supervisor at the casino Tina Barnet says the first thing she thought about if she lost her job was how she could live in Auckland now.
“I think I would be one of the people who would be forced to become homeless living in my car. I don’t want to think about it,” he says.
Barnet has been with the company for 16 years and says she feels she has now been “thrown in the trash.”
Now all eyes are on the Budget on Thursday to see what the Government will do to replace Kiwis wallets so they can go out and spend.
