A number of McDonald's restaurants across the country are set to reopen their walk-in take-away service again this month.
The fast food chain decided to close locations across the country last month as rules no longer allowed customers to enter the premises following the introduction of Level Five.
As a result the restaurants instead only offered a drive-thru takeaway service over the last number of weeks.
However, now they will trial the reopening a number of their stores from Monday February 22 for walk-in takeaway services.
The company has yet to announce however which stores will be reopened.
A statement from McDonald's Ireland said: "A month ago we made the voluntary decision to temporarily close our walk-in Takeaway while we reviewed our safety measures to ensure they reflect the evolving nature of the Covid-19 pandemic.
"Working closely with third party safety expert NSF International, we identified a small number of changes to further enhance our procedures, and we are currently in the process of rolling these out to restaurants.
"This week, a small number of our restaurants will trial reopening walk-in Takeaway with these enhancements in place, with the plan to reopen the majority of restaurants for walk-in Takeaway across Ireland from Monday 22 February.
"New safety measures being introduced include visors as well as face coverings for customer facing employees, revised guidance and processes for our couriers to support their safe working and enhanced processes for managing customer and courier flow in restaurants.
"Once again, we would like to thank our franchisees, managers and employees for their ongoing commitment in supporting and implementing all of our updated procedures.
"The wellbeing of our people, as well as our suppliers, couriers and our customers remains our top priority, and we are confident the new processes in place will further enhance our already robust safety measures."
