Czech bar staff race model electric cars to bide time amid lockdown
A bartender plays with an electric car track inside a cafe bar, as the Czech government shut all restaurants for two weeks to slow down the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Prague, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny
A Czech cafe has turned its bar area into a model electric car track for bartenders and staff to pass the time while the country's pubs and restaurants are shuttered to the public to curb a rising tide of coronavirus infections.
Staff at Mlynska cafe - popular with Prague's artist community - said they decided to set up the track when one of them discovered they had an old set stored away at home.
While restaurants and pubs are closed for dining and drinking inside, staff remain on standby for take away orders.
A bartender prepares a drink after turning a bar area into an electric car track, as the Czech government shut all restaurants for two weeks to slow down the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Prague, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny
"It was a sudden idea," said bar manager Jan Sramek. "We said if we can't use the space as we used to ... we'd have the kind of fun here we can't have when we have guests."
The central European country - which has the continent's fastest per capita rise in COVID-19 infections and deaths from the disease - earlier this week closed restaurants, bars and clubs and shifted schools to distance learning.
A bartender prepares a drink after turning his bar area into an electric car track, as the Czech government shut all restaurants for two weeks to slow down the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Prague, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny
(Reporting by Jirka Skacel, Writing by Michael Kahn; Editing by Mike Collett-White)
An electric car track is seen installed inside a cafe bar, as the Czech government shut all restaurants for two weeks to slow down the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Prague, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/David W CernyA bartender waiting for take away orders plays with an electric car track inside a cafe bar, as the Czech government shut all restaurants for two weeks to slow down the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Prague, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny
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