COVID-19: 13 guidelines Abu Dhabi restaurants need to follow to reopen

Good news for food lovers in Abu Dhabi - restaurants operating outside malls will also be allowed to serve to dine-in customers.

Restaurants are required to follow certain guidelines that have been issued.

If you are planning to visit from outside Abu Dhabi, however, you would need to postpone your plans. Movement restrictions have been put in place by Abu Dhabi: https://gulfnews.com/1.1591090649985

Guidelines: 1. 40 per cent capacity limit for food outlets.

2. Workers should get a COVID-19 test done. 3. Customer age limit 12 to 60 years. 4. Per table limit of four customers.

5. Tables should be 2.5m apart. 6. Employees to wear masks and gloves at all times.

7. Sanitise chairs and tables after each use. 8. Customers to wear face masks while entering and exiting.

9. No shisha, buffet, shared canapés etc. 10. Temperature checks for employees.

11. Work hours to be within disinfection programme timings. 12. Single-use cutlery should be used, unless restaurants have thermal dishwashers.

13. Hand sanitisers at entrances.

Restaurants operating inside Abu Dhabi malls had started serving dine-in customers as malls reopened earlier.