With the public asked to stay home amid the coronavirus outbreak, butchers and restaurants in Aichi Prefecture are resorting to new and safer measures to sell their products: drive-thrus.
Toriichi Seinikuten, a butchers in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, started a drive-thru service on Sunday to sell frozen meat products in the hope of helping producers in the Higashimikawa region in the east of the prefecture, which have been dealt a heavy blow from declining orders from restaurants.
After the firm started the service at 10 a.m. from a food truck parked on the grounds of Japan Tobacco Inc.’s Toyohashi branch near its store, cars arrived one after another, with some 60 people making purchases in the first hour.