Due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, dine-in restaurants had to cancel plans to reopen until at least May 25 as the rest of the province restarts
With less than 24 hours’ notice, restaurateurs in Calgary and Brooks, Alta., found out that they would not be permitted to reopen for sit-down service last Thursday like the rest of the province.
Premier Jason Kenney said he sympathized with the businesses but said the decision was based on advice from public-health officials. “I believe guests will feel very comfortable in our rooms," says Mr. L’Heureux. “We’ve created a COVID playbook and we treat this as if we are opening the restaurant for the first time. We did live training runs simulated as if we had guests in the building. [Our staff] have been great and understand the severity of our new protocols.”
Before starting their shift, workers must now sanitize anything they bring in with them from outside such as cellphones, watches and keys. Following that, their temperatures are taken and logged. Edmonton restaurateur Paul Shufelt owns several eateries in the Alberta capital and is also one of the few independent restaurant owners who opted to reopen a restaurant prior to the long weekend. Still feeling as though it was too early for his Workshop Eatery for lunch and dinner service, Mr. Shufelt decided to focus on reopening Woodshed Burgers to test the postpandemic waters.
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