Luke Mangan offers Covid vaccination incentive at Sydney’s Glass restaurant

Celebrity chef Luke Mangan wants to encourage everyone to get vaccinated with a glass of vino on him as Sydney’s rollout race looks to carrots, not sticks.

Forget carrots and sticks – the real race to get NSW vaccinated is going to be all about knives and forks.

Iconic Sydney restaurateur Luke Mangan has announced that anyone who dines at his flagship restaurant, glass, and can prove they have had the jab will get a free glass of wine for the first three months hospitality is allowed back in business.

Chef Luke Mangan gets his jab, and is encouraging everyone else to do the same - offering a glass of wine to anyone who shows him their proof of vaccination once restaurants re-open.

“We want to encourage people to get the jab,” Mangan, who is one of thousands of hospitality operators who have been left devastated by a shutdown of trade which the state government has flagged will not lift until more Sydneysiders are vaccinated, told The Daily Telegraph.

“It’s a reward for those who’ve had the jab, because what we are really looking at is jabs for jobs.”

“The more people who can go out and get the jab, the sooner we can get the economy back to normal and get people back in work sooner,” he said.

Chef Luke Mangan at his restaurant Glass, at The Hilton Hotel in Sydney. Picture: Richard Dobson

Mangan’s declaration comes as policy makers, businesses leaders, and ordinary Australians grapple with what life will look like in a world where 70 or 80 per cent of us have gotten the jab – and where those who have not are increasingly left out in the cold.

With Australia racking up record vaccination numbers Sunday and NSW now beating the national average with just over 23 per cent of the state jabbed, what people will and will not be able to do once they are vaccinated is becoming more and more clear.

Restaurants across Sydney have been closed due to the current Delta outbreak. Picture: Saeed Khan / AFP

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Qantas boss Alan Joyce has already flagged a “no jab, no fly” policy for international travel, but in a bid to incentivise vaccinations has also said the airline is working to offer incentives that could include “super prizes” such as a year of unlimited free travel across his carrier’s network.

Meanwhile sports fans will also have to prove that they have been vaccinated if they want to attend in-person events, with a plan to make the jab compulsory to buy a ticket to attend NRL, AFL, or cricket matches once the rollout has been offered to everyone in the works.

But moves to bring in so-called vaccine passports across society more broadly is likely to face challenges.

Seats at footy matches and other sporting events may eventually be only for the vaccinated.

A move by the Berejiklian government to make construction workers provide proof of vaccination saw a number of MPs and ministers inundated with angry phone calls and emails.

Liberal backbencher Tanya Davies has said she will introduce a private members bill to prevent employers whether public or private from requiring proof a worker has had the jab.

Federally, controversial former Liberal MP Craig Kelly has introduced his own private members bill to prohibit discrimination against people on the basis of whether or not they have had the jab.

Overseas nations like France, Greece, and Italy where vaccination take-up has levelled off have seen hundreds of thousands of protesters turn out against health passes officials say are necessary to curb the pandemic.

Originally published as Luke Mangan offers Covid vaccination incentive at Sydney’s Glass restaurant