A prominent restaurant owner will forfeit around $10 million, keeping his 27 stores closed until all restrictions are lifted in Australia’s most populous state New South Wales (NSW). Rami Ykmour, co-founder of the Rashays restaurant chain in Sydney, announced on Sept. 27 that the business would remain closed until Dec. 1, despite being allowed by the state government to open under an official roadmap to ease NSW out of government-mandated health restrictions. NSW is the first jurisdiction in Australia to announce an official “Freedom Day” (Dec. 1) that would see most restrictions on vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals removed. In an interview with The Epoch Times on Oct. 8, Ykmour said he was motivated by two reasons to keep his doors closed. “The first one is obviously a ‘two-tier society.’ That was something I don’t stand for, and I want everyone to have ‘Freedom Day’ on the same day. Number two …