First Weekend of Latest Mask Recommendation Leads to Confusion, Varied Response By Bay Area Businesses
Residents of seven Bay Area counties were told Friday that they should start masking up indoors again regardless of whether they re fully vaccinated, in an effort to slow the latest surge in new COVID cases driven by the Delta variant. But after a month of no masks in bars and restaurants for patrons at least the boomeranging guidance made for some awkward situations.
While many Bay Area residents have continued wearing their masks to go grocery shopping and even walk down the street, many others have relished in tossing the masks away when shopping, dining, and drinking even though we ve had to keep our masks in pockets and purses for use in rideshare vehicles and on public transit, and at certain businesses that never dropped their mask mandates.
Bay Area restaurants scramble to respond to new mask guidance
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Food from Zareen’s, which is requiring customers to again wear masks indoors.Kimberley Hasselbrink/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Server Brett Kuwahara (second from left) wears a mask as he stands near diners Jake “JaCandy” Andriola (left), David Betty, (center) and Ryan Pozivenec (right) at Wursthall on Friday, July 16, 2021 in San Mateo, California. Restaurants were scrambling on Friday to respond to a new public health recommendation in seven Bay Area counties that vaccinated people again wear masks indoors.Gabrielle Lurie / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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After San Francisco Bay Area health officials issued new guidance Friday recommending that everyone – even those who are vaccinated – should wear masks indoors, many restaurants are now reportedly requiring them again for their employees.
And at least one employer has decided to lay off any unvaccinated employees just to be safe, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. If anyone doesn’t want to get vaccinated, we will let them go, Zareen Khan, owner of Pakistani/Indian restaurant Zareen’s, told the newspaper. It’s terrible, but we need people to understand this is serious. It’s better to be cautious than to be sorry.
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