Dine-in service shut for 6 months, desperate restaurant owners urge uddhav Thackeray to allow it

On Wednesday, BJP MLA from Shivajinagar constituency Siddharth Shirole – who is also a restaurateur — wrote to Thackeray, urging him to lift the “unfair restrictions” on restaurants. (Representational)

WITH continued restrictions on their business, restaurant owners in Maharashtra have started running from pillar to post to obtain permission to start dine-in services. The state government had allowed restaurants to open on June 1, but only for takeaway and home deliveries, with a complete embargo on dine-in services.

Various associations have written to and met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar,…