Updated Advisory for Safe Management Measures at Food & Beverage Establishments

Who Should Know:
Mall developers, building owners, food & beverage business owners

1. This joint advisory provides updates on Safe Management Measures (SMMs) for Food and Beverage (F&B) Establishments.

Updates on SMMs during Chinese New Year (CNY)

2. Prevailing rules at F&B establishments will continue to apply. This applies to reunion dinners or other CNY meals in the upcoming festive period.

Reunion Dinners or Meals

3. Reunion dinners or other CNY meals in F&B establishments must adhere to the dine-in and social gathering size limit of up to 5 persons. Exceptions can only be made if all members of the group are from the same household, i.e. have the same place of residence. For members of the same household, they will need to be seated in separate groups/tables, with no more than 5 persons per group/table, with at least one-metre spacing maintained between groups/tables. Family members who live in different places of residence are not from the same household.

4. F&B establishments are required to verify customers’ claims that they are from the same household, and can decline service at their discretion.

5. Large-scale events related to CNY, including religious processions or dinner banquets (such as company-organised meals or tuan bai) are not allowed.

Lohei

6. To reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission:

   • 6.1. Lohei should be done without any verbalisation of the usual auspicious phrases. F&B establishments should ensure that their workers do not explain the ingredients in yusheng or verbalise the usual auspicious phrases when serving it. F&B establishments and their workers should refrain from conduct that could encourage customers to engage in emphatic toasting or loud enthusiastic exclamations of wishes with their F&B, as such conduct would put the F&B establishments at risk of enforcement action. Emphatic toasting with food or drinks is disallowed, by both workers and customers.

   • 6.2. Customers should remain masked when tossing ingredients.

   • 6.3. F&B establishments should provide a fresh set of clean cutlery for customers to lohei.

   • 6.4. F&B establishments should provide customers a clean serving spoon or chopsticks for serving.

Other Safe Management Measures

7. In addition to the above, F&B establishments must adhere to prevailing SMMs in the Annex. Firm action will be taken against any breaches. Under the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act, first-time offenders will face a fine of up to S$10,000, imprisonment of up to six months, or both. Subsequent offences may face a fine of up to S$20,000, imprisonment of up to twelve months, or both. Businesses that do not comply with the government’s requirements on SMMs may also be ineligible for government grants, loans, tax rebates and other assistance, and may also be subject to temporary closures.

Annex [PDF, 153 KB]: Other Safe Management Measures (SMMs) for all F&B Establishments

Thank You.

ENTERPRISE SINGAPORE
HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT BOARD
SINGAPORE FOOD AGENCY
SINGAPORE TOURISM BOARD
URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

Updated as of 25 January 2022

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