Adel El-Masry, head of the Chamber of Tourist Establishments, stated that cooperation and coordination took place with the Ministry of Tourism to develop and introduce new specifications for “Fast Food” tourist restaurants and “Food Court” restaurants, in keeping with global trends in the tourist restaurant industry and to offer more facilities and incentives for businesspeople to invest in this field.
El-Masry said in a press statement that the chamber is represented on the joint technical committee of the ministry and the chamber tasked with setting the new specifications by Yasser El-Tagouri, board member and treasurer, Hany Yan, Sherif Sadek and Hesham Wahba, board members, and Mohamed Nassar, the chamber’s advisor. The committee’s meetings resulted in setting out the features of developing and updating the specifications for establishing “Fast Food” tourist restaurants and seasonal restaurants, whether time-based, such as those set up in coastal areas during the summer months, or location-based, such as those set up at exhibitions, festivals, celebrations and major events.
He explained that the joint technical committee’s meetings are still ongoing to finalize all the new requirements and specifications for tourist establishments, especially classic, specialty or entertainment restaurants, or fixed and moving floating units, and to present the new and final form of these specifications in a memorandum to Dr. Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of Tourism, for approval and endorsement.
The head of the Chamber of Tourist Establishments noted that this committee is characterized by freedom and flexibility, and works to provide facilities and incentives for restaurant operations without compromising civil defense and local authority requirements, applying all health, environmental and security standards that guarantee society’s right to healthy and safe food, and keeping pace with the ministry’s plan to restructure the tourism sector, which led to the issuance of specifications for “Food Court” restaurants, which did not exist before.
