Business boom predicted for Hong Kong restaurants with city set to relax dining restrictions on Mother’s Day weekend

Hong Kong restaurants could regain 70 per cent of the business they had before the Covid-19 pandemic this weekend, an industry leader has said, as family dinner and birthday bookings surged in response to plans to ease dining restrictions.

Incumbent leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor earlier announced plans to relax several anti-epidemic measures ahead of schedule, such as allowing restaurants to seat eight diners per table, up from the current four.