April 4, 2020
Vienna, April 4 (IANS) A luxury hotel in Vienna has started delivering food using horse-drawn carriages to the city’s older residents, who were confined in their homes due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The initiative by the luxury Intercontinental in the Austrian capital, was launched last week after the hotel was forced to close amid the shutdown measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 disease, Efe news reported.
“The hotel, unfortunately, is empty,” Brigitte Trattner, who runs the hotel, told Efe news on the phone on Friday. “We want to help. So we thought we could distribute food.”
Customers, who tend to be over 70, place their orders the day before, and the food, typically traditional Austrian fare, is prepared every day in the kitchen by the hotel staff.
On the first day of the initiative, they received some 170 orders.
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