Take a flight: pop-up restaurants in airplanes are hot
In Singapore, guests will soon be able to take a seat in a pop-up restaurant run by Singapore Airlines. They’ll get a seat… on the plane. This is how the airline is trying to limit its losses caused by coronavirus.
Singapore Airlines’ airplane food rises head and shoulders above the average grub served on board; it has won all kinds of awards. Guests could book business class for 474 dollars per person, but for just 39 dollars you can sit in economy. The plane simply remains on the ground at Chiangi Airport, Singapore Airlines’ home base. Earlier, Singapore Airlines sold the airplane meals as a takeaway meal, so people could play airplane at home.
Purple-pink-orange flight attendant
Thai Airways is also helping people who miss their airplane meals; in Bangkok, it has set up a restaurant with business-class airplane seats. The staff wear Thai Airways’ flashy purple-pink-orange flight attendant uniforms, and everyone gets to take a boarding pass home.
Looking for a workaround
In the Netherlands, hospitality entrepreneurs who had to close their doors are also looking for workarounds to still be able to receive guests. Can a restaurant temporarily become a church? Because up to thirty people are allowed there. One entrepreneur registered all guests at a nearby hotel, so he could simply keep operating: hotel restaurants are allowed to serve meals to guests.
