The ‘Omicron wave’ was the catastrophic dumper that closed our Sunshine Coast restaurant forever | Teresa Russell

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The ‘Omicron wave’ was the catastrophic dumper that closed our Sunshine Coast restaurant forever | Teresa Russell
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Poor planning by governments has defeated our beloved business. The economy collapses when citizens are too afraid to leave their homes

‘Post-jobkeeper lockdowns during the pandemic exposed the already high-level career insecurity in the hospitality industry, and then supercharged it.’‘Post-jobkeeper lockdowns during the pandemic exposed the already high-level career insecurity in the hospitality industry, and then supercharged it.’As owners of Ocean Ended, a beautiful restaurant located right on the water at Maroochydore on Queensland’s spectacular Sunshine Coast, we know quite a lot about riding waves.

Our regulars came back in droves after the first lockdown. They supported local businesses, including ours. We had our best winter trading since we opened. But the closure of the “Pineapple Curtain” , although popular with the state’s voters, has had the longer-term disastrous effect of vaccine hesitancy within the cloistered population.

We took another three months to find a fantastic head chef and a second chef who were pivotal in the rebuilding of our team. We nervously reopened on 10 December. Spending per head had dropped noticeably on our return and although locals were pleased the border had opened, they were now nervous about catching Covid.

Unfortunately, the unit got caught up in trucking delays from Melbourne and the new motor seized eight minutes after it was installed in late December, due to damage acquired from poor packing prior to transport .The final nail in our coffin was hammered in on 7 January when the premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, urged people to work from home if they were able and avoid socialising for the next six weeks. Cancellations went through the roof and bookings through the floor.

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