According to Alan Kohler, the requirement that diners occupy four square metres each under current regulations in Sydney and Melbourne, alongside average rents for restaurants in those cities costing $3,000 a year per square metre, means that restaurant-goers would need to spend $300 a head for the average restaurant to break even.
This suggests that a huge number of restaurants are facing closure unless COVID-19 restrictions are dramatically eased.
Most restaurants were already struggling to survive before COVID. Now they are facing outright decimation.
