Gary Usher has announced he is closing all his restaurants for two and a half days a week because of coronavirus fears.
Gary took to social media to outline the changes he would be making in response to the outbreak.
The chef owns several restaurants across the North West including Wreckfish in Liverpool City Centre, Burnt Truffle in Heswall and Pinion in Prescot.
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He captioned the video: "We are making some changes & we’d like you to know. I have no idea if this is the right decision.
"The future of Elite Bistro isn’t in our hands anymore but we will do our best by the teams & by the guests to adapt. We won’t give up. We won’t moan. We won’t beg. We will fight it."
In the video he said: "Starting from next week we are going to be closing all of the restaurants for two and a half days a week.
"We feel this will alleviate pressure on all of the teams, but also on the business as well.
"Rich the exec chef has suggested that we change the menus and reduce them for similar reasons."
Rich then said: "We're going to be focusing on the key dishes the ones that we know work and that you guys love.
"This will minimise workload throughout the day and getting ready for service and ultimately reduce our costs and the amount of stock that we're holding, which is really important."
Gary then added: "One last thing we wanted to add is if anybody has symptoms that have got a table booked, please just cancel and don't worry about that.
"We want you to cancel if you're not feeling up to it, give us a call, let us know and hopefully we'll see you when all of this gets better."
