19/03/2020
THIS!!! ... probably sums up how most of us in the hospitality industry(& most others) are feeling right now.🦋 May we go forth and keep feeding on faith!!!💚
LOVE & HOSPITALITY IN THE TIME OF CORONA
(our Covid-19 message)
We are open. We probably shouldn't be. We feel it is our social and moral responsibility to close our doors and let this health crisis pass. We want to do our part in flattening the curve. We're trying to figure this out and have sent it out to the powers that be to allow us to close our doors and bunker down and help us do this financially. We salute our friends who are managing to do so.
Unfortunately at Farro, we are on a knife edge, and were so long before the words 'Pandemic' were uttered. (Thanks Eskom, thanks inflation, thanks skyrocketing food costs) Due to this, we don't have any reserves. Our bones are exposed and it'll take only the flu to bring us down. If our little restaurant isn't 80% full every night, we fold. We have 18 covers on the book this week. The whole week. That's one table, per night. And it's a very, very difficult place to be, because we need you to come here. We need you to eat. We need you to help us pay our staff and our rent. But we also want you to stay home. To stay safe. To flatten the curve and get this virus the hell out of our lives. Where do we go from here?
For now, until the powers that be tell us otherwise, these are our measures at Farro to promote safety.
Tables have been removed in order to maintain social distancing.
Only 2 staff on the floor per dinner shift.
All staff wash hands with Anti-bac soap regularly.
Alcohol hand sanitiser is used frequently and available for customer use.
Surfaces are santised frequently.
Salt pots removed from tables.
If staff are sick, we ask them to stay at home. If customers are sick, we ask them to stay home too. Please call ahead to cancel your booking. No shows are prevelant in Joburg and crippling at the best of times. Don't be a dick. Don't turn up as a 2 if you were booked as a 4. Because we are restricting our covers, every person counts.
We are a very clean restaurant, we always have been, but we've gone into overdrive.
We are watching our colleagues & friends around the world in hospitality crumble. If you value us, please support us. We cannot weather this storm without you.
