McDonald's Taiwan said in a statement that customers will not be allowed to dine at its restaurants in the cities of Taipei and New Taipei beginning May 17 until May 28, to protect the health of customers and employees.
However, take-out and delivery services will still be available during the period, said the fast-food chain.
Prior to the ban, McDonald's last Wednesday started asking dine-in customers to register their full name and contact number and denied entry to anyone with a temperature above 37.5 Celsius.
The Feast & Food Gourmet Group also announced that all restaurants under its seven brands in Taipei, New Taipei and Taoyuan cities will not accept dine-in customers and only offer take-out and delivery services over the same period.
The seven brands are the Eatogether, Kaifun, GuǒRán Huì, Siam More, Inparadise, Sunrise, and Jin-zhu.
The group said it offers a 10 percent discount for take-out and delivery with a minimum order of NT$1,000 (US$35).
Meanwhile, the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA), Taiwan's national railway operator, on Monday said it would issue no standing-room-only tickets for express trains until June 8.
The policy was introduced on May 14, and includes the Taroko Express, Puyuma Express, Tze-Chiang Limited Express, Chu-Kuang Express and the Fu-Hsing Semi Express.
Passengers who stand inside the carriages will be asked to get off the train. Those who do not comply will be removed by the railway police and fined NT$3,000-15,000 in accordance with the Communicable Disease Control Act, the TRA said.
In addition, an additional two fast local trains travelling between Hsinchu-Nangang and Nangang-Shulin will be added to accommodate peak hour passengers every Monday to Friday beginning May 17, according to the TRA.
The Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, which operates the high-speed railway that runs from Taipei to Kaohsiung, also said it will only sell tickets for reserved seats from May 15-June 8.
The changes in restaurant and train operations come amid worsening cluster infections in Taiwan over the past few days, which prompted the government to raise its four-tier COVID-19 alert for Taipei and New Taipei to Level 3.
On Monday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) confirmed 335 new cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan, of which 333 were domestic cases.
Among them, 158 were in Taipei and 148 in New Taipei, the first time the two cities have both recorded more than 100 cases in a single day since the pandemic began, the CECC said.
