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‘Lose the atmosphere of a vibrant west street’
But after nearly 50 days off to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic, the atmosphere on West Street was completely different.
Staff and managers wait for guests at Bui Vien Photo: Dau Tien Dat |
After about 2 hours, unexpectedly, the hall’s People’s Committee mobilized the stores to keep the stores closed because the city has not allowed the bar to reopen. Western customers are baffled, they don’t understand what happened, they just know the payment out of pity, and then they go looking for a nearby coffee shop to continue the unfinished story.
Hurriedly cleaning tables and chairs at the neighborhood’s request, a member of the Go2 Bar staff shared: “We were so surprised that the food and stones were prepared to serve customers today. The new management, so we have to obey.”
Ms Dang Thi Kim Hong, manager of the Sahara bar, also said that the restaurant had just moved, so everyone had a feeling of being depressed. Many employees who have just returned from their hometown to return to work, but now have to close the door, don’t know how to handle it. Food purchased but not sold before being stored in the freezer await opening day.
On weekends at 8:00 p.m., but the store is full of staff. Photo: Dau Tien Dat |
On the afternoon of 9.5, the City People’s Committee continued to issue an urgent notice to allow the bar to resume operations. The pubs, bars, breweries on the pedestrian street of Bui Vien continue to set up tables and chairs outside, but the music is not as loud as the day before.
After about an hour, neighborhood authorities and urban order ordered that all stores be sold indoors, not putting tables and chairs on the sidewalk to ensure urban order. Many restaurant employees and managers tidy up the tables and chairs, but they still shake their heads, not understanding why.
Ms Van – Miss Saigon restaurant manager said: “Guests come to West Bui Vien street because they like the bustling atmosphere here, especially the feeling of sitting on the sidewalk watching the flow of people and vehicles passing by, It is very real, very Saigon, creating the characteristics of the Bui Vien pedestrian street compared to other places. When this reopening, the room remembered not to sell on the sidewalk, it was also very stuck for the store, because if it was only sold indoors This area is similar to other areas. “
The tables and chairs on the sidewalk were confiscated by the forces of urban order. |
Ms. Van said the restaurant’s desire is to allow tables and chairs to be kept some distance from the edge of the store so that guests who don’t like air conditioning can sit outside.
Ly Truc, a popular pub worker, said that before going live, every weekend, Bui Vien’s pedestrian street often banned cars, shops and tables that were furnished to receive guests. As a result, weekend guests were more crowded than usual, but this occasion was not possible.
“Our store is quite a narrow and popular restaurant, so there is no air conditioning. When customers come to the store, they mainly sit on the sidewalk because the area is very small. No tables are shown, so there is not yet two guests have visited. ” Looking at the empty sidewalks, he seems to have lost the atmosphere of busy West Street for many years, “said Truc.
Count each guest
20 hours and 15 minutes, Mr. Tuan – 96 Restaurant Manager and a service staff are still sitting in front of the restaurant to watch the flow of people. Inside, two rows of orange plastic tables, red chairs were lined up in a straight line, but there were no visitors.
Mr. Tuan said, it opened 3 hours already, but clients have not entered, so he had to go out and offer. Normally, after 6 o’clock, the restaurant had guests to drink, but now there is nobody. The store only had one manager, an employee was sitting looking at each other, looking at the empty tables and chairs but with impatience.
20 hours, the bar only has DJ and bartenders Photo: Dau Tien Dat |
“I went out to invite guests to count guests, but there was no one to count. On weekends like this they don’t know what day of the week. Even if it’s not for sale on the sidewalk it seems to scare visitors. More sitting , because the common characteristics of the pubs, except the Bui Vien bar, are very narrow and quite secret, “said Tuan.
The difficult return after the epidemic not only seemed to be found in Mr. Tuan’s store, but many other popular bar owners also sat “yawning to wait”, the big bars were in the same situation, but perhaps because the staff It is crowded, so the atmosphere is a little more condensed.
Ms Do Thi Yen Nhi, manager of the donkey shop, who was only standing to invite the guests, said it was after 8 p.m., but the store was still very empty. Returning to post-epidemic work, the staff was excited but would probably have to wait a few months for everything to return to the previous course.
After 22 o’clock, the force of urban order ran out of hours, Bui Vien street was also crowded, popular shops began to set up tables and chairs to invite guests. |
The manager of an Italian restaurant on Bui Vien Street also held the menu in front of the restaurant to invite guests, but continued to sigh because he was waiting for someone to come by. He said that because it is a simple restaurant that sells Italian food, it has been open for a long time, but every day only 3-5 visitors come in, all regular customers, plus some requests through the app. . According to him, this situation will last until tourism reopens.
Until approximately 10:00 p.m. 9.5, the restaurant manager Miss Saigon said that on the first day of reopening, the restaurant only received around 30% of customers compared to the day it was not discontinued. “Normally, the interior area of the restaurant is full of people, now there are still many empty tables. This seems to be the general situation of the restaurants in the pedestrian street of Bui Vien on the day of reopening. I just wait for everything. After going back to normality, the atmosphere on West Street and this pedestrian street is as exciting as it is inherent, so all store employees will go back to work, “said the store manager.
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