Despite the lockdown being lifted Maggi Little who owns and operates Maggi's Pizza is frustrated at the lockdown measures.
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Ms Little was suppose to take her mobile pizza business to a weekend long event before the snap lockdown and now feels stressed and frustrated another lockdown could happen again.
She said she lost thousands of dollars and it would take at least a full day to get up and running again.
"We were meant to go the Lake Charlegrark for a festival and do pizzas and then everything got slammed down," Ms Little said.
"We've lost quite a bit. I'd say two to three thousand (dollars)."
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Ms Little said there were a range of mixed feelings about the lockdown being lifted.
"There is another nine days before we can really tell. I don't know what's going to happen, honestly," she said.
"Daniel Andrews can shut it down at any time. That's what stressful."
Ms Little has an 18th and 21st birthday functions booked into her calendar.
"We'll plan for the weekend and wait and see what happens," she said.
Ms Little said it would take her some time to prepare to open.
"I'm in Kaniva so I have to drive to get supplies. It also takes me a whole day to make dough," she said.
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Ms Little was able to have a pizza night on Friday, and were able to have takeaways but they are located on the farm.
"People can't travel, and we're 27 kilometres out of Kaniva," she said.
Last year, Ms Little had to cancel several weddings the business had been booked for.
"It has shifted my business. We are a mobile catering business, that's most of our business. We go out and do weddings, 21st and events," she said.
She said once the borders closed, she struggled to get supplies because she would often go to South Australia to bulk buy.
"I didn't have that much to throw, if I had been over to South Australia the week before before the closure, I would have been throwing out a lot of stock," she said.
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