Hungarian restaurant reinvents the wheel for social distancing


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  • Sunday, 18 Oct 2020

A chef prepares food as Michelin-starred restaurant Costes moves into the Budapest Eye ferris wheel during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Budapest, Hungary, October 17, 2020. Picture taken October 17, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hit by a plunge in turnover after foreign tourists vanished, Michelin-starred Hungarian restaurant Costes has staged a skyline dining event on the Budapest Eye ferris wheel to generate sales in a coronavirus-proof environment.

Costes owner Karoly Gerendai said that turnover at one of his reopened restaurants is down to about a tenth of pre-lockdown levels, forcing him to look for new ways to do business.

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