'We know how it feels': Logistics firm owners create space for delivery riders amid COVID-19 dine-in restrictions
SINGAPORE: When dining-in restrictions were announced recently, the owners of a logistics firm thought about one group of people who volition be affected - food delivery riders.
Mr Muhammad Adha and Mr Muhammad Ikhbar, co-owners of Bao Logistics, realised that riders will demand a space to sit during their breaks.
"We know how it feels like to deliver orders everyday under the hot sun ... all kinds of weather," Mr Adha said.
Beyond just eating, dining-in at food and potable outlets previously would mean that riders could relax and savor the environment, he said.
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Equally part of Phase 2 (Heightened Alert), dining-in at F&B establishments was suspended on May 16 through Jun thirteen. This includes hawker centres and nutrient courts, both indoors and outdoors.
So Mr Adha and Mr Ikhbar decided to make available an unused air-conditioned infinite within their premises in an Yishun industrial building so that nutrient delivery riders could have a place to rest and eat at. They moved into the building three weeks agone.
"Nosotros had an empty space, so why not?" Mr Adha said.
To prepare for it, they used record to demarcate "parking lots" for motorcycles and electric bicycles outside their unit on the seventh flooring of the edifice.
The business firm then posted an announcement on their company's Facebook pagewelcoming delivery riders to residue and eat their meals at the space from 12pm to 10pm everyday.
HAVING A SPACE TO GO TO
When CNA visited the premises on Thursday (May twenty) at about 4pm, three riders were seen making themselves comfortable in the room, observing a safe distance from ane some other, and all of them had their masks on.
The riders, who are friends, told CNA that they saw the Facebook mail service and decided to take their pause in that location.
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Among them was Mr Feddly Shah, 37, who has been a rider for more a twelvemonth.
"We are so touched that they idea about us," he said.
Earlier the new rules kicked in, they would commonly take their breaks at coffee shops.
With the dining-in restrictions, the riders, who by and large do their deliveries around the Yishun area have resorted to sitting at roadsides or outside convenience stores to have their meals.
They had also been going into air-conditioned shopping malls to cool off a bit, simply the communal seats there are non always bachelor, the riders said.
"Sometimes we sit down in the toilet to rest," Mr Feddly added.
The riders said that they sometimes have had to wait for one to two hours for food orders to be ready. While waiting, they would previously exist able to sit inside the outlets to have a short rest, something they are not able to do at present.
Mr Muhammad Hamizan, 31, who first saw the post by Bao Logistics and shared it with his other two friends, said the new space is "proficient for riders, rather than sitting exterior malls".
Members of Parliament (MPs) also took to Facebook to post information on spaces within their wards that delivery riders, taxi drivers and individual hire drivers are costless to employ.
MP Baey Yam Keng (PAP-Tampines) said that an area at the void deck of Block 475 at Tampines N4 neighbourhood eye has been set aside for them to have their meals.
MP Tan Chuan Jin (PAP-Marine Parade) wrote on his Facebook: "We have arranged for our sports/part halls in our Kampong Kembangan Community Club and Kampong Ubi Community Club for our food delivery riders and Rubber Distancing Ambassadors to take a infinite to take repast breaks."
Taxi and private hire vehicle drivers are welcome too, he added.
His fellow MP Seah Kian Peng (PAP-Marine Parade) also said on his Facebook page that he has made similar arrangements at Braddell Heights community gild.
"A proper place to eat and and have a short pause is important," he said.
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