Groups of happy customers pack bars for late-night drinks on first day of relaxed Covid-19 rules

from Tuesday , she immediately sent a WhatsApp text message to her friends and booked a table for six at a bar in Clarke Quay for the same day.The group, consisting of three pairs of couples, became friends through work but had not been able to meet as a group outside for more than a year due to Covid-19 infection controls.

Live singing and live band music could also be heard coming from the restaurant-bars in the entertainment hot spot.is allowed to resume at all venues, including F&B establishments from Tuesday, as long as performers comply with the prevailing regulations that include keeping group sizes to 10 unmasked persons.

Ms Valerie Saw, 29, who works for a non-profit organisation, was having drinks with a group of five colleagues at a bar. She said: “It’s really nice. I kind of forgot what it feels like to meet as a big group.Her colleague, Ms Niki Sanida who arrived in Singapore from the Netherlands 10 days ago for a business trip, said: “It’s so nice that we can sit as a group of six. For the past week, we had to split into two groups and it was so troublesome.

She told TODAY that this scene was a stark contrast from what she was used to seeing on a weekday night for the past year, when the restrictions on alcohol consumption and sale were still in place.However, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the F&B sector is not going away overnight, as the majority of customers in Clarke Quay were still in smaller groups of five or fewer, and a few pubs were not fully occupied.

Mr Rohan Pai, who owns Gabbar Bistro and Bar, said that he is operating at half of the venue's manpower strength and had to contact workers he laid off the past year due to the pandemic, to ask them if they want to take up their job roles again.

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