Cape Town restaurants hope to win court battle seeking to lift alcohol ban

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With more than 50 restaurants in Cape Town permanently closing their doors, the battle to save the industry and force the government to lift the alcohol ban has gone to court.

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Tomlin is the owner of Chef Warehouse. Tomlin and 10 other restaurants have launched an urgent court bid to lift the prohibition on the sale of alcohol, but it’s now been postponed until August 25 and 26. “The predominant reason for the postponement is that the government is fighting with all their might. The alternative court order , we are also pursuing an order with more limited effect, namely to declare it as such only in the Western Cape province,” he said.Riffel told Cape Argus the industry felt no one was listening. “We need to be able to open without the alcohol and curfew restrictions.

“It is denied that the eating out experience would be so absurd and unpleasant that nobody would actually want to do it. The statement assumes, as a fact, that all people that frequent restaurants consume alcohol or go out for the alcohol, not the food.” It prompted Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane to extend trading hours for restaurants until 10pm.

 

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