Fish-and-chip shop chain Beshoff Bros has announced that it is closing all its stores with immediate effect after footage showed customers were not following social distancing guidelines outside its shop in Howth on Sunday. One person on Twitter posted video footage from his car showing the lines of people. “The amount of abuse we have been getting since last night has been disheartening,” she told The Irish Times. pic.twitter.com/NaXf1p6ekf — Beshoff Bros (@BeshoffsBros) March 23, 2020“It’s incredibly difficult because the staff did not want to go out and talk to people who were shouting abuse back. Why didn’t they close Howth off if Howth was so busy?”Ms Starbuck said that if the Government wanted takeaways such as theirs to close down, it should say so.

Source: The Irish Times March 23, 2020 12:47 UTC