The Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) are adopting digital solutions for restaurants in a bid to reopen restaurants within areas under community quarantine.
In a virtual press briefing today, tourism secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said that both agencies are working with the Talino Venture Labs to provide free digital solutions for the new normal.
The firm is the maker of SafePass, an all-digital, contact-free authorizing, scheduling, and contact tracing solution to help businesses operate safely during the Covid-19 pandemic situation.
“We introduce these free digital solutions as part of the government’s support to businesses, especially MSMEs, in their transition to the new normal,” Puyat said. “Here, innovation is key to effectively implement and maintain health and safety protocols in their premises.”
Features of SafePass Express include space planning, registration and health questionnaire, protocol enforcement, and digital incident management. Manual data need not be a problem for this application too. SafePass already captures all-digital and contact-free collection of health information from every tourist or guest. Efficient contact tracing can also be managed in this application.
Meanwhile, Dine In is another digital solution for restaurants made by the team. This allows customers to schedule a reservation in a restaurant, following the government’s safe distancing and incident management regulations, book, order, and pay their dine-in orders ahead through an all-digital, contact-free menu.
The agencies’ joint recommendation on safety protocols for restaurant dine-in operations have already been approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID).
