Social hub is bootscooting back to its best
One powerhouse Tewantin club is hiring bar, bistro and kitchen staff as it battles back towards more “normal” trading.
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One Tewantin entertainment hub is bootscooting its way to a strong comeback from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
This resurgences is seeing Tewantin Noosa RSL hiring bar, bistro and kitchen staff as it battles back towards more “normal” trading.
And that includes welcoming back this week the line dancers for the first time to cut loose on the dance floor adding to the club’s demand for hospitality workers.
Tewantin Noosa RSL general manager Julie McLaws is delighted to be offering the positions that include a chef and kitchen hand.
“It’s been pretty busy this last period and we’ve had a couple of people leave due to their own personal circumstances,” Ms McLaws said.
“Pretty much through Christmas we were booked out ... function wise, we were dealing with a function if not every day, every second day.
“We’ve re-incorporated line dancing just this week, we’re slowly getting back to somewhat normal, whatever you call normal now,” she said.
The RSL has rebuilt its hospitality workforce to 65 – about 20 short of their pre-COVID-19 trading restrictions.
“We’ve still got the 2 sqm per person (restriction) so we’re certainly not back to capacity in any way,” she said.
“I made the crazy decision back in May when we were allowed the 10 people to open up our bistro.
“It was amazing the response, people just wanted to come out and have someone cook them a meal and they didn’t have to clean up.”
She said this reconnected the club to the community and was the turning point in trading.
“Our demographic is the elderly so we can be a high risk area, but obviously we have all our protocols in place and our sanitisers,” Ms McLaws said.
“We’re doing everything we should be doing if not more.”
The club has been operating with often only sections open, but can operate fully to cater for about 480 patrons under existing guidelines.
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