{"id":15546,"date":"2021-10-05T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=15546"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:00:33","slug":"dot-welcomes-expanded-indoor-seating-in-ncr-restos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2021\/10\/05\/dot-welcomes-expanded-indoor-seating-in-ncr-restos\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT, IAFT Approve Expanded Indoor Seating in NCR Restos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gmail-p2\">Last week, the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced the approval of the expansion of indoor seating capacity in the National Capital Region restaurants.<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">According to the latest Inter-Agency Task Force resolution, indoor seating capacity is now allowed up to 20 percent seating and additional 10 percent for all establishments that have Safety Seal by the government. <span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">Meanwhile, seating for outdoor dining remains at 30 percent but may increase by an additional 10 percent if the restaurant is also a Safety Seal recipient.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15549\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-1536x1229.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>DOT Sec. Bernadette Puyat and Miso ramen\/IMAGE from the DOT and ARAYA Ramen &amp; Sushi Bar\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">In addition, Tourism chief Bernadette Romulo-Puyat encouraged the public to support DOT-accredited establishments\u00a0for they are already fully vaccinated.\u00a0<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">\u201cWe are confident with the cooperation of our tourism stakeholders \u2014 guests, workers, and hotel and restaurant operators \u2014 to ensure the safe reopening of restaurants to a higher number of guests by strictly observing the new seating capacity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">At present, Metro Manila remains under Alert Level 4 until October 15.<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1155287\">Philippine News Agency\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Written by Cedie Salido<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Tourism announced the approval of the Inter-Agency Task Force&#8217;s newest resolution to expand indoor capacity up to 20 percent in the NCR restos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701],"tags":[3093,3100,3107,3235,3298],"class_list":["post-15546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-manila","tag-department-of-tourism","tag-tourism-secretary-bernadette-puyat","tag-dot","tag-national-capital-region","tag-indoor-seating-in-ncr-restos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15546"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15561,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546\/revisions\/15561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}