Blue Kanu co-owner Grant Hattaway predicts the local scene, for those who reopen, will be “super-competitive”. Hattaway has a warning for restaurants who opened their venues this week for takeaways, as allowed under Alert Level 3, many for the first time. “Going forward, rents should be variable, based on a percentage of the month’s turnover, because whatever the business did previously is irrelevant. “It’s very clear the hospitality and tourist market will have shrunk dramatically, and therefore we will need to right-size our business accordingly. “It will be hard, real hard, but I haven’t worked for 17 years to not plan and get this sorted.”scoop@scene.co.nz

Source: Otago Daily Times May 03, 2020 03:11 UTC