Summary:
Kolkata, Oct 16 (PTI) Fine dining restaurants in the city did brisk business during the Durga puja with higher occupancy than last year and equalling pre Covid days record, an official of hotel and restaurant association of Eastern India said.
The West Bengal government had lifted the 10.30 pm deadline for restaurants between October 10 to 20 and allowed them to function under normal operationg hours during the period.
"The customer response has been great since this year"s puja came with night curfew relaxations, people stepped out in large numbers and visited restaurants mostly as all the pandals were no-entry for visitors," said Sudesh Poddar, President of Hotel and Restaurant Association of Eastern India.
Debaditya Chaudhury, co-owner of Chowman, Oudh 1590 and Chapter 2 chain of restaurants said "We are super pleased with the sale for it was as per our expectations.
Both dine-in and delivery were excellent! This time we witnessed a rise in dine-in sale and made a profit by 25 per cent more compared to the last year".
Also, this year the crowd was more into dining out than the usual pandal hopping scenes.