Owner of the Barbers Bru, on David Street, Reagan Milburn said the financial toll of regional NSW second COVID-19 lockdown was "ridiculous".

"[It's] just crippling, because we are one of those business that we can't trade online," he said.

"We can't do anything else to implement an income, so we've gone from making money to making zero.

"If we'd taken a hit of 30 per cent I could have lived with that, but we literally went back to zero and there would be heaps in the service industry that did exactly the same."

That's why Mr Milburn said he was "so happy" to get back to work.

"It's amazing to be able to come back to work and I think it makes everyone feel normal," he said.

Mr Milburn said he was expecting an influx of "woolly" customers and he was wasting no time in getting the business back into swing.

"I'll probably open at at least 6am [on Saturday] if I can get a couple of takers, maybe 5am," he said.

"Everyone's just been locked in their houses getting woolier by the day so I think we're just going to be run off our feet."

In the approximately 25 minutes The Border Mail was interviewing Mr Milburn, the phone rang up to 10 times, with customers trying to book in.

Mr Milburn said the Government had provided little support to small business owners and that JobKeeper should have been available for this lockdown, too.

"They had enough time that there should have been something in place," he said.

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Meanwhile, a Walla cafe owner says the Riverina's eased COVID-19 restrictions would only marginally benefit her business, but would have huge benefits for community wellbeing.

The Old Walla Bake Haus owner Lorna Williams has been operating her business via a drive through window since lockdown, but the relaxing of restrictions will mean she can seat about five people inside.

Ms Williams said the greater benefit would be for isolated community members, who would be able to interact with others at the cafe.

"A lot of people, especially the elderly around here and people on farms, are not seeing any human contact and that is something that is really needed," she said.

She said throughout lockdown she was serving drive through customers who hadn't seen or had a conversation with anyone else for weeks.

"I've had one lady came off the farm, she hadn't spoken to anybody for two weeks," she said.

"I was the first person she saw, so we had a chat and we put a smile on her face and away she went.

"So it is huge to have the restrictions eased, it'll be great for morale and mental health."

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