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CHENNAI: Strike with more Covid curbs, luxurious hotels are now giving ‘residential’ weekend offers both for small stays or ‘lockdown-cation’ and functions.
Massive hospitality chains are also opening up their takeaway food and beverage menus and cloud kitchens to tap into demand for restaurant foodstuff and brief breaks with no flouting pandemic restrictions. This consists of ‘residential’ weddings in excess of the locked down weekends where by no outside the house friends are permitted.
Zubin Songadwala, GM, ITC Grand Chola and spot manager, ITC Resorts South, reported, “Even when beach locations are closed, the rejuvenation in a seashore-facing hotel is some thing we are presenting as a weekend deal.”
“Guests can check in on Friday and look at out on Monday without having stepping out of the vacation resort as a result of the locked down weekend,” a GRT representative said. Other folks like Novotel are featuring pet welcoming staycation solutions in the town. Hoteliers say takeaway is now an essential F&B vertical. “When restaurants opened up, the takeaway share was down to15% but it has moved up to 20% currently,” stated Songadwala. Resort chainsare alsogetting modern. For instance, Novotel presents Do-it-yourself kits and pre-mixed cocktails as portion of its dark kitchens principle for takeaways.