restaurants
Businesses open but not ‘as usual’ as pandemic continues to affect restaurant staff, management
December 9, 2021
Mallory Biggar
Restaurants are open for business but definitely not back to normal, as management and staff work their way through post-pandemic-shutdown changing realities. While federal support dollars helped many owners to carry on and stay in business, the industry is seeing a trend toward workers leaving, prompted by concerns for their physical and mental health as well as newly difficult social interactions in an already stressful work environment.
photo: Amy Nelson © 2020
Be fine or get fined: how businesses are achieving (or ignoring) COVID compliance
December 11, 2020
Matt Benoit
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in shifting hours and sales, to comply with shifting state-ordered public health mandates to keep businesses and their customers safe from the virus. But not every business complies.