From June 1, Victorian cafes, restaurants and pub bistros will be able to serve up to 20 patrons at a time.
Three weeks later, from June 22, the patron limits will increase to 50.
From mid-July, the state will consider allowing 100 patrons per enclosed space.
However, Andrews warned the current guidelines of social distancing, cleaning and protections put in place for staff needed to remain in place.
“All of those protocols, those rules, are critically important,” he said this morning.
“This will only work if those who are going out to a cafe, or going out for a meal at a restaurant, or going to the bistro in a pub actually follow those rules, do the right thing, take these things seriously.”
In order to help with contract tracing, every patron will have to give their first name, last name and phone number if they want to enter restaurants and dining areas of pubs.
Andrews said Victoria’s testing blitz, which saw more 92,000 tests conducted in the past week was what was giving him the confidence to be able to reopen the hospitality sector.
“We are doing more testing than any other state,” he said.
“We have a really good handle on how much virus is out there in the Victorian community. That can change though.”
Victoria recorded seven more cases of coronavirus overnight, bringing the state’s total to 1561.
Two of the new cases are related to known ongoing outbreaks, three were in returned travellers in hotel quarantine and three are still being investigated.
It comes as a dozen McDonald’s restaurants across Melbourne’s northwest have been closed and hundreds of workers asked to self-isolate after a delivery driver tested positive for coronavirus.
The outlets are located in: Melton East; Laverton North; Yallambie; Taylors Lakes; Campbellfield; Sunbury; Hoppers Crossing; Riverdale Village; Sandown; Calder Highway Northbound/Outbound; Calder Highway Southbound/Inbound; and BP Rockbank Service Centre Outbound.
McDonald’s Australia said the restaurants were closed out of an “abundance of caution” and that no further employees had tested positive.
The driver, who worked for an external service provider, delivered to all 12 outlets and interacted with “a small number” of employees, the fast-food chain said in a statement.
“He was asymptomatic when he made these deliveries, and he was obviously unaware that he was infected,” McDonald’s Australia CEO Andrew Gregory told Today on this morning.
“There is no danger to customers.”
Gregory said McDonald’s were also waiting on a small number of test results from its Fawkner store, where the cluster stands at 12, and for around 150 tests from its Craigieburn store.
Meanwhile, a man in his 60s has become Australia’s 99th coronavirus-related death.
The NSW man died in hospital on Sunday after contracting coronavirus from a personal contact.
He had underlying medical conditions, NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said.
NSW has now registered 48 coronavirus-related deaths, by far the most of any Australian state or territory.
The next highest death toll is Victoria with 18.
The state reported only one new confirmed case of coronavirus on Monday morning from nearly 6000 tests.
NSW relaxed restrictions over the weekend, allowing pubs, clubs, cafes, restaurants, and places of worship to welcome up to 10 people inside their doors.
