Fine dining restaurants, such as Merienda, a restaurant in Edinburgh, are now accepting “social distancing deliveries”, where they bring award-winning cuisines to the customer’s doorstep. However, orders had to be made a day in advance, unlike fastfood. Home deliveries are unusual to Merienda, but they have to come up with ways to survive, as Yahoo details:
"Delivering a meal in a foil container is not something I would normally consider but these are unusual times," Mickel says of the slump in business caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
"Business has been wiped out. We don't get bookings, we only get cancellations. So we have had to come up with a way of surviving and do things that we weren't prepared to do before," he told AFP.
Later in the day, the First Minister of the devolved government in Edinburgh, Nicola Sturgeon, announced there were 227 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Scotland, with three deaths.
Shortly before lunchtime, orders for roast salmon with lobster sauce, beef bourguignon and chicken chasseur with bottles wine to accompany have already come in.
Unlike fast-food, orders need to be made a day in advance and the service is for people who want to stock up with "a few meals at one time".
Assistant chef Robbie Probert says the challenge is making sure meals prepared by the restaurant, arrive looking as mouth-watering as they would in the restaurant.
"It is about making things simple for people," Probert says.
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