# restaurants - Tuesday 17 May, 2022
# Hospitality
# Hospitality
The legislation was first introduced to help the hospitality sector during Covid.
# restaurants - Sunday 10 April, 2022
# Your Say
# Your Say
There has been a mixed response to the UK’s decision to make this mandatory for some restaurants from this week.
# restaurants - Wednesday 16 February, 2022
# Food
# Food
Chapter One and Liath are among the restaurants to receive the prestigious honour this year.
# restaurants - Thursday 20 January, 2022
# Your Say
# Your Say
New legislation aims to place tips and gratuities outside the scope of a person’s contractual wages.
# restaurants - Friday 17 December, 2021
# Omicron
Pubs and restaurants will have to close at 8pm from Monday until 30 January The number of people attending sporting and live events will be capped at 50% capacity A maximum of 100 people can attend wedding receptions, which must end at midnight
# restaurants - Thursday 2 December, 2021
# Hospitality
# Hospitality
Businesses have called for cuts to the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme to be reversed amid mass cancellations over Covid fears.
# restaurants - Tuesday 9 November, 2021
# Covid-19
The head of the restaurants association has said the hospitality sector shouldn't be used as a “scapegoat” for rising case numbers. It follows data showing that just over a third of customers were asked for their Covid certs in restaurants in October, Christina Finn writes.
# restaurants - Wednesday 27 October, 2021
# Covid Pass
# Covid Pass
HSE officers inspected 500 premises, while HSA inspectors carried out 123 inspections.
# Tips
# Tips
The Government is set to introduce legislation that will give legal protection to workers’ tips.
# restaurants - Thursday 21 October, 2021
# Covid Pass
# Covid Pass
Speaking in Brussels today, he said the Government was looking at further options to ensure Covid rules were being followed.
# restaurants - Thursday 7 October, 2021
# Lifting Restrictions
# Lifting Restrictions
Government says it plans to scrap the use of the Covid pass on 22 October.
# restaurants - Friday 1 October, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Leo Varadkar says hospitality venues will be able to operate at full capacity when restrictions are lifted.
# restaurants - Monday 9 August, 2021
# FSAI
# FSAI
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland confirmed the closure orders today.
# restaurants - Wednesday 4 August, 2021
# Indoor Dining
# Indoor Dining
CEO of the Restaurants Association of Ireland Adrian Cummins has called for the limit on closing times to end from September onwards.
# restaurants - Friday 30 July, 2021
# Indoor Dining
# Indoor Dining
As of Monday, customers can avail of indoor hospitality if they have proof of Covid-19 immunity.
# restaurants - Monday 26 July, 2021
# Indoor Dining
# Indoor Dining
Outdoor dining recommenced last month but many businesses didn’t have capacity to open.
# restaurants - Tuesday 20 July, 2021
# Fully Vaccinated
Cabinet will meet tomorrow with 26 July still the target date for full reopening. CO2 monitors will be used in restaurants. Unvaccinated children can accompany adults as long as their table is 2m away from others
# restaurants - Monday 19 July, 2021
# Pubs
# Pubs
Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said Ireland is the last country in Europe to reopen indoor dining.
# restaurants - Tuesday 13 July, 2021
# Indoor Dining
# Indoor Dining
The Tánaiste denied that the time limit had no scientific basis.
# restaurants - Thursday 8 July, 2021
# Pubs And Restaurants
Six proposals will be discussed before a Cabinet meeting on the issue next Tuesday, Christina Finn reports. Sources indicate any return of indoor dining is likely to be in line with advice from NPHET. Talks to centre on use of vaccine passes and antigen testing.
# restaurants - Thursday 1 July, 2021
# Restaurants
# Restaurants
Rachel Keane of Póg Cafe Group says people in the industry are tired and fed up of the lack of clear communication from Government.
# restaurants - Tuesday 29 June, 2021
# Remain Outdoors
# Remain Outdoors
The hospitality sector is not happy.
# restaurants - Monday 28 June, 2021
# Food Chain
# Food Chain
From wasted food to cancelled bookings, an extension of restrictions could mean large losses for pubs and restaurants .
# restaurants - Wednesday 23 June, 2021
# Hospitality Industry
# Hospitality Industry
Both restaurateurs and vintners’ representatives have called on the Government to explain the impact of the Delta variant.
# restaurants - Wednesday 9 June, 2021
# France
# France
Residents of France will be able to stay out later and will also be able to sit inside cafes and restaurants .
# restaurants - Monday 7 June, 2021
# Beer Gardens
Reporter Hayley Halpin chats to publicans ahead of the reopening of outdoor dining today. Some wet pubs will be reopening for the first time in 15 months. One-metre distance is required between tables for outdoor service and there is no time-limit if this is in place.
# restaurants - Thursday 27 May, 2021
# Summer Review
# Summer Review
There was fury from TDs both inside and outside government over the new rules.
# restaurants - Wednesday 26 May, 2021
# 105 Minutes
# 105 Minutes
A 105-minute time limit will be in place for indoor dining where there is social distancing of one-metre.
# restaurants - Tuesday 25 May, 2021
# Hospitality
# Hospitality
There is no fixed date set for the return of indoor dining but it’s expected to be some time in July.
# restaurants - Sunday 23 May, 2021
# Reopening
# Reopening
The government is expected to lay out plans for the next stage of easing restrictions this week.
# restaurants - Wednesday 19 May, 2021
# The Big Reopening
# The Big Reopening
Varadkar said he hopes that indoor dining could return in “early July”.
# restaurants - Wednesday 28 April, 2021
# Nine Euro Meal
# Nine Euro Meal
Transport Minister Eamon Ryan said it was a ‘false kind of division’.
# restaurants - Wednesday 31 March, 2021
# Hospitality
# Hospitality
On-street dining similar to that found in other European cities to be facilitated in urban areas, towns and villages.
# restaurants - Thursday 4 March, 2021
# Al Fresco
# Al Fresco
Restaurants and cafes are calling for some leeway when it comes to applying for planning permission.
# restaurants - Friday 26 February, 2021
# Your Say
# Your Say
A Fianna Fáil TD is calling for this.
# restaurants - Sunday 21 February, 2021
# Let Down
# Let Down
The Irish Hotels Federation say a closure until mid-summer would significantly impact the tourism industry.
# restaurants - Friday 12 February, 2021
# Shuttered
# Shuttered
Minister Simon Harris said Covid-19 has had a “devastating” effect on the sector.
# restaurants - Thursday 4 February, 2021
# Summer 2021
It's hoped the country can move to Level 4 restrictions in March - but outdoor dining is not expected to begin till a later stage. Talks are currently underway to extend the wage subsidy and PUP into the summer months, the Tánaiste said.
# restaurants - Monday 25 January, 2021
# Stars In Their Eyes
# Stars In Their Eyes
The first new award went to Dede at the Customs House in Baltimore.
# restaurants - Monday 18 January, 2021
# Food Safety Authority
# Food Safety Authority
The FSAI issued less than half of the enforcement orders last year that it issued in 2019.
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