{"id":338548,"date":"2026-03-10T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:53:09","slug":"indian-restaurants-warn-of-shutdowns-as-iran-war-makes-lpg-scarce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338548\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian restaurants warn of shutdowns as Iran war makes LPG scarce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Restaurants and hotels across India warned of disruptions and possible \u200bshutdowns on Tuesday, as the Iran war \u200bconstricts supplies of cooking gas, prompting authorities to set up a panel to \u200breview industry requests.<\/p>\n

The fuel shortage<\/a> comes as the U.S.-Israel war on Iran has halted ship traffic in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, driving up energy prices and transport costs, hitting exports and output from Gulf producers, such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Also read: Govt invokes Essential Commodities Act to ensure natural gas supply, orders refineries to divert key streams<\/a><\/p>\n

India, \u200cthe world’s second-biggest \u2060importer of \u2060liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), invoked emergency powers last week to order refiners to crank up production for domestic use, leaving the hospitality industry<\/a> struggling to get sufficient supply.<\/p>\n

“We have LPG stock for two days. We are working on contingencies,” said Bert Mueller, founder of Mexican food chain California Burrito<\/a>, with more than 100 stores spanning Bengaluru<\/a> and Chennai in India’s south to Delhi and Noida in the north. <\/p>\n

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“We are conserving gas and installing induction stoves at certain stores.”
India’s oil ministry said it had set up a panel to review requests for LPG supply<\/a> to restaurants \u2060and other \u200cindustries, following appeals from two industry bodies.”The restaurant industry is predominantly dependent on commercial \u200bLPG for its \u200boperations,” the National Restaurant Association of India, which represents more than half a million restaurants, \u2060told the food processing ministry on Monday. <\/p>\n

“Any disruption therein will lead to \u200ba catastrophic closure,” the NRAI said in a letter, while another body, the \u200bFederation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India, also sought government help. <\/p>\n

Indian companies have raised LPG prices for the first time in about a year, as the war boosts prices of the imports that fill two-thirds of annual LPG consumption. <\/p>\n

India’s largest supplier of LNG, Qatar, halted production last week after Iran’s strikes on Gulf countries in retaliation for Israeli and U.S. strikes against it.<\/p>\n

Also read: Government invokes ESMA powers, orders refiners to ramp up LPG production<\/a><\/p>\n

DWINDLING SUPPLIESIn the southern tech hub of Bengaluru dubbed India’s Silicon Valley, \u200cseveral restaurants said deliveries had dropped sharply, fanning that kitchens will come to a halt if the situation is not resolved.<\/p>\n

“One of our restaurants did not receive gas cylinders today,” Manish \u200bV Shetty, who \u200bruns the Udupi Food Hub \u2060chain of restaurants in Bengaluru told Reuters.<\/p>\n

“Thankfully, one of our older vendors helped us,” he added, because the chain offers immediate payment, rather than credit terms of a week or month. “We’re also seeing a spike in the price \u200bof the sunflower oil that we use for cooking.”<\/p>\n

Few restaurants stockpile LPG cylinders, because of safety concerns, relying instead on frequent replacement, said Veerendra Kamat, secretary of the Bengaluru Hotels Association.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very grave situation. Most of the (gas) companies have stopped supplying,” said Ananth Narayan of the NRAI’s Bengaluru branch, adding that even those restaurants that do store gas could run out within a week or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restaurants and hotels across India warned of disruptions and possible \u200bshutdowns on Tuesday, as the Iran war \u200bconstricts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[22056,72,155322,155324,155319,113,155320,13641,61,155318,60,155321,155323,150177],"class_list":["post-338548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bengaluru","tag-business","tag-california-burrito","tag-commercial-lpg","tag-cooking-gas-shortage","tag-economy","tag-fuel-shortage","tag-hospitality-industry","tag-ie","tag-indian-restaurants-shutdown","tag-ireland","tag-liquefied-petroleum-gas-lpg","tag-lpg-supply","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}