People eat at tables set up during a rally organized by Ukrainian restaurateurs in front of the President’s Office in Kyiv on May 2, 2020. The protesters were demanding that the government allow restaurants in Ukraine to resume table service at outdoor terraces during the quarantine.

Ukraine’s restaurant business has taken a heavy blow from the country’s coronavirus quarantine.

Since the government shut down most public spaces on March 17, Ukrainian restaurants and cafes have suffered from extreme revenue losses, salary cuts and layoffs. Then, on April 4, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal announced that outdoor restaurants would be able to end this run of bad luck and resume their work starting on May 11.