Thai Rock restaurants in Potts Point, Wetherill Park to reopen after coronavirus outbreak

The restaurant at the centre of a major NSW COVID-19 cluster is set to reopen after doing what is “humanly possible” to restrict contamination.

The Thai Rock restaurant at Wetherill Park, in Sydney’s west, which became the epicentre of a major COVID-19 cluster will reopen its doors.

Earlier this month the Wetherill Park premises had been linked to more than 100 coronavirus cases while the Potts Point restaurant was linked to seven cases after the virus spread between the sites.

At the time, owners Stephanie and David Boyd broke their silence to Nine’s A Current Affair saying they were not to blame for the situation in August.

“We are not to blame … we are victims in it as well,” Mr Boyd told the program.

“It’s destroyed our business.

“I don’t know how we can recover for this,” Ms Boyd added.

However, more than six weeks on, they have done just that — opening their doors on Tuesday for the first time since the crippling outbreak.

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Stephanie and David Boyd are set to reopen their Thai Rock restaurants on Tuesday. Picture: A Current Affair

On top of implementing the latest surface cleaning technology, the owners recently hired a microbiologist who spent one day going over every inch of their restaurant.

“My aim is to find all of the potential risks, looking at it from a microbiological point of view, so that you’re fully aware,” microbiologist Craig Andrew-Kabilafkas said on the program.

But despite taking all measures possible to restrict possible contamination, Mr Boyd said they can’t stop a COVID-19 sufferer from walking in.

“All we can do is look for ways, as we’ve said, not only to protect our staff and the people here, but the people coming in using measures that will restrict that possible contamination,” he told A Current Affair on Monday.

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Both their Wetherill Park and Potts Point restaurants were linked to more than 100 coronavirus cases in early August, forcing the business to shut down. Picture: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images

When opening tomorrow, the pair will ask customers entering the building to sanitise their hands as they measure everyone’s temperature.

The Boyds admit they were nearly driven out of business by the outbreak, but following their first interview with the program in early August, Ms Boyd said they saw a change in the tide of people supporting them.

“At times I didn’t know whether I could get back up and restart,” she said.

The pair had received hateful and cruel messages from the public which they said left them “devastated”.

At the time of the outbreak, the pair said they received cruel messages from the public, describing it as devastating. Picture: A Current Affair

They hired microbiologist Craig Andrew-Kabilafkas who spent the day going over every inch of the Thai Rock restaurant. Picture: A Current Affair

The pair will ask anyone entering the restaurant to now sanitise their hands, with temperatures also being checked. Picture: A Current Affair

“(They say) ‘damn you to hell’, ‘you spread this virus to everybody’ and I should die because I have it,” Ms Boyd said at the time.

But now they have focused their attention on rebuilding their business.

“At the end of this., whatever this is, restaurants still need to be here to look after the public who want to come out and dine and we need that support now, more than ever to help us go and be there for the community,” Mr Boy said.

The pair said they have done what’s “humanly possible” to protect the community.