"I think [customers] love the fact that we're being completely up front about it. As soon as we found out, we went public with the information and I think people really appreciate that honesty," he said.

Powell said the cafe, like many other hospitality businesses, had been following strict hygiene practices since lockdown which made it well placed to deal with an incident like this.

"It's about going through the process and I think every hospitality business in New Zealand has pretty strict cleaning processes anyway so as far as the deep clean goes, we're doing that every day.

"We put the bubble seating in early on in the piece, when we went through level three and two originally, so we had pretty good social distancing on Sunday, when the customers in question came in."

Powell said there were customers in the cafe having breakfast this morning and he had even had a former staff member offer their services.

"The staff [ who were working on Sunday] understand, they're all self-isolating and getting tested. We have a large team so we've swapped the teams out and got a different team on today. It will be interesting to see how customers react.

"We've had ex-staff come back and support us and one has come back on board to help us get through while we have staff off."

Further information about where two people who tested positive for Covid-19 visited while in Rotorua has been released.

They include the Fat Dog cafe on Sunday, August 9 between 1.30pm and 2.30pm, Burger Fuel Redwoods on August 10 between 7pm and 8pm, Wai Ora Lakeside Hotel on Saturday August 8 from 3.30pm until Tuesday August 11 at 9am, Herbs & Spices Thai Restaurant on Saturday August 8 from 8pm to 9pm, Pak'nSave Rotorua on Sunday August 9 from 2.30pm to 3pm, Rotorua Heritage Farm 3D Art Gallery on Monday August 10 from 3pm to 4.30pm, Skyline Rotorua on Sunday August 9 from 4pm to 5:50pm, Don Kebab on Monday August 10 from 7pm to 7:30pm.

A Lakes DHB spokeswoman confirmed all affected businesses were contacted by Toi Te Ora-Public Health between 4pm and 7pm yesterday.