International Special Awards 2021OrganizationInternational selection

Black Sheep Restaurants

Covid-19 Playbook

Syed Asim Hussain & Christopher Mark

Hong kong, China

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Community Spirit Award

A chef or restaurateur showing an outstanding commtment to supporting frontline staff or fighting the financial and humanitarian crisis within hospitality

Black Sheep is a group of Hong Kong restaurants employing 1000 people, with French, Italian, Thai and Indian restaurants among the 26 locations. The two founders Syed Asim Hussain and Christopher Mark, reacted quickly to the pandemic by adapting their safety guidelines and hygiene protocols. Early 2020 they published the results of their work online. Since then, the Covid Playbook has been translated into four languages and adopted in 30 countries. It is regularly updated, and could have been a publishing phenomenon, but the choice was made to maintain it as a service available to restaurateurs around the world: the Covid Playbook and all its translations - including French - remain free.