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Here’s What You Need To Know While Dining In During CMCO

Adhere to the SOP

As Penang relaxes its Movement Control Order, Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow has given the green light on the island for dine-ins at hotels, shopping malls and fast food chains starting Friday, May 15! Yes, you can finally take your girlfriend/boyfriend out on that date after eating home-cook meals over FaceTime for two months! Here’s what you need to know about dining in at restaurants.

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List of Shopping Malls Open for Dine-In Starting May 15:

  • Queensbay Mall
  • Gurney Plaza
  • Gurney Paragon Mall
  • 1st Avenue
  • Tesco Hypermarket
  • Giant Hypermarket
  • Sunshine
  • Sunway Carnival Mall
  • GAMA Supermarket
  • TF Value Mart
  • Prangin Mall
  • Penang Times Square
  • Kompleks Bukit Jambul
  • Straits Quay

How To Enjoy Your Meal Safely & Securely

Photo: Iconic Hotel Official

We have broken down the standard operating procedure (SOP) into six simple steps for you to practice social distancing while enjoying your favorite meal at malls, fast-food chains, and hotels. Here’s the breakdown!

Photo: Penang Island City Council (Facebook)

1. Customers Are Encouraged To Wear Masks

While employees at restaurants are required to wear face masks at all times, customers are strongly encouraged to wear masks as well. And of course, when eating, you can take it off!

2. Utensils To Be Served Only By Waiter/Waitress

Remember the pre-coronavirus days when you can get your own forks, spoons and knives from the food court counter? Now you will adapt to this new norm to minimize exposure of utensils for safety reasons! Restaurants are also required to sterilize all utensils after each use. Also, no sharing of utensils are permitted.

3. Restaurants Will Operate At 50% Capacity

All eateries are only allowed to function at 50% capacity and are required to sanitize the tables often.

4. Social-Distance Dining

Personal space? YAS. All dining tables will be set at two meters apart, and customers are required to stand one meter apart from each other. When paying, stand one meter apart from the cashier. Cashless payments like e-wallets and credit/debit cards are also encouraged!

5. Personal Information

Customers will be required to provide their names and telephone number prior to entering the restaurant. Of course, this is not new to anyone who’s been grocery shopping in Aeon, Sunshine, etc, except now they won’t be taking your IC number anymore. The use of hand sanitizer before entering is also necessary.

*Note to eateries: If you are looking for an easy way to check-in and out, FOODIE+ will be rolling out a new feature soon!

6. Others

Buffet-style dining is still prohibited under Phase 1 and all foreign restaurant workers are expected to test for Covid-19.

Your Cooperation Matters

Photo: Gurney Plaza (Facebook)

Your discipline and social responsibility in adhering to the SOP is keeping Penang a green zone. So we just want to say a big “thank you”! Now, enjoy your dine-in meals from Friday, May 15 and you may even catch one or two editors from Penang Foodie dining out. Just don’t forget to say hi!

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Check-In Less Than 30 Seconds

With FOODIE+ Check In, eateries can now speed up the process of getting information from dine-in customers! The latest feature on Foodie Plus app takes less than 30 seconds per person via QR scan. And… you don’t have to worry if the dine-in customer isn’t using FOODIE+, we have made key-in submission easy too. This new feature is absolutely free to use. If you are interested to learn more and participate, click here. Please stay safe, and take care during this period.

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