Bangkok’s premier department stores, The Emporium and Emquartier, have introduced innovative Em-Auto Sanitizing Gates to reassure visitors of their safety from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
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Move over Clark Kent, there’s a new Superhero in town in need of your dressing room. The Digital Economy and Society Ministry is converting TOT phone booths into Covid-19 testing kiosks to help lower the infection risk faced by healthcare workers due to the shortage of personal protective equipment.
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Now one Vietnamese restaurant in Bangkok has found a more fun way to make sure people are sitting apart but still marking the seat spacing. Big, stuffed panda bear toys are placed in the vacant seats instead.
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During the current Covid-19 pandemic, Nicolas Vivin the entrepreneurial founder of VIVIN Grocery / VIVIN Food along with his business partner wife, were faced with losing the greater part of their business due to hotels and restaurants closures on top of facing the challenge of the Government imposed curfew only months after opening their stand-alone boutique grocery store. Although the regulations are slowly being relaxed, customers are naturally cautious and afraid to leave the house or go to high risk, populated enclosed areas such as major supermarkets. The aftermath of Covid-19 is expected to last for the rest of the year, both in health risk and financial hardship.
The enterprising couple came up with a solution that could help customers to discover their products with minimal effort and risk and the brand could get some cash flow for their small business, impacted by Covid-19. What they did first was look to their immediate resources. The idea then came about to supply the bakery, organic vegetables, cheese and charcuterie to the people by way of a transport vehicle. It took two weeks to remodel their old transportation delivery truck which was originally purchased to send supplies to hotels, into a refrigerated mobile Grocery on wheels.
VIVIN Grocery Food Truck plans to move from one key location to the next every weekend, in order to reach different communities who can benefit from healthy, organic, natural grocery. The truck will be parked at locations which are open-air and shaded, some with even a place to sit so customers may enjoy their purchase, like freshly baked croissants with a coffee or cool beverage. They are also reaching out to their peers and public to help them find more suitable, private locations.
VIVIN Grocery will reveal weekly on their social media pages, where they will pop-up their operations. VIVIN Grocery Food Truck will be trading every Saturday mornings, and occasionally both Saturday and Sunday. The VIVIN Grocery Food Truck team will open up the back of their truck which will supply shelves and crates filled with quality essentials and delicacies; free-range eggs, certified organic vegetables, jams and chutneys, bread and pastries (baked that morning) along with plenty of local Thai, artisanal cheese and cold cuts. Look out for the announcement on their @vivinmaison facebook / @vivinmaison instagram / LINE: @VIVINGrocery pages for updates!
Bangkok’s Athenee Hotel’s chefs will bake 300 loaves of raisin bread and 1,000 oatmeal banana cookies daily for 20 consecutive days, to be distributed by the Scholars of Sustenance Foundation (SOS).
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Mulberry Boutique Hotel, Jaya House Hotels, Treeline Urban Resort & The Cambodian Landmine Museum have formed a community-based partnership with the sole goal of making a simple difference; providing basic nutrition.
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Khiri Reach, the charitable arm of Khiri Travel, has been active helping communities in Asia impacted by the Covid-19 crisis.
Its focus has been on marginalized communities, many of them in long-standing relationships with Khiri Travel, such as local families, artisans or community based projects that were regularly visited by tours before lockdown.
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