According to workers in Dunedin restaurants, students turned out in droves during Re-O to support the many eating establishments in our fair city. This might explain the proportion of vomit on the streets of North Dunedin.
Many restaurateurs, waiters, and cooks have reported to Critic that they saw some of the busiest days of the year during the first week of second semester.
“Oh it was very busy last week,” said a waitress at an Indian restaurant. “It was crazy busy last week, man. Probably the busiest since we opened,” said a worker at a campus burger joint. Similarly, a cook at a local satay restaurant told me that she had “cooked far more food than usual”. Others shared their sentiment, but all wanted to remain anonymous so that they didn’t get in trouble with their managers.
Honestly, Critic can’t confirm if any of this is legit, considering the fact nobody was willing to hand out numbers to our intern, despite the fact he was wearing a media pass.
Anecdotes from students have given credence to the claims made by the food industry. “Me and my flat went out for a BYO on Thursday. Was pretty lit,” said one student while she tied her shoelaces. “Me and my friends went out for Turkish on Tuesday. It was okay,” said another.
Restaurants nationally lost $15 million because of Covid-19, so Critic suggests that the patriotic thing to do is to go out and have more BYOs to support the community, the vineyards, and the economy.