Chennai, March 10 -- Tamil Nadu hotels and restaurants are mulling rationalisation of menu items, functioning time to tide over their energy crisis owing to the decision to stop supplies of commercial liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders, officials of industry bodies said.

"It is as if another Covid shutdown is looming before us," M.Venkada Subbu, President, Tamil Nadu Hotels Association, told UNI.

Supplies of commercial LPG cylinders have been stopped by the private and government companies following the continued war in the Middle East between the US-Israel on one side and Iran on the other.

Iran has warned of an attack on ships sailing the Strait of Hormuz and hence, transit of oil and gas tankers has stopped.

"With the given gas ...