Business as usual at Mandarin

JAKARTA: It was business as usual at the Mandarin Oriental Jakarta after thick black smoke enveloped the third-floor kitchen on Thursday.

"All operations at the hotel were back to normal within less than three hours after the incident," hotel general manager George Benney said on Friday.

He underlined that Mandarin Oriental, which is located on Jl. MH Thamrin, was fully operational, in business-as-usual mode.--JP