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Restaurants asked to abide by states new Safer Dining Program and last updated 2021-02-10 06:06:10-05 Now that indoor dining has reopened in Michigan, restaurants are being asked to voluntarily comply with the state’s new “MI COVID-19 Safer Dining” program. Restaurants that want to become a certified safe dining space will have to work with a licensed HVAC contractor who can recommend changes to air ventilation to improve circulation and reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread. The A...

Feb 3, 2021 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has granted restaurants the option to operate with limited indoor dining starting Tuesday, after months of having to survive on takeout and outdoor seating during a Michigan winter. Yet the damage thousands of restaurants have endured is likely to be lasting. The state restaurant association estimates 3,000 restaurants have closed and contends that the industry employs 200,000 fewer people than it did last year as Whitmer’s “pause” on indoor dining meant ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has granted restaurants the option to operate with limited indoor dining, after months of having to survive on takeout and outdoor seating

Restaurants upgrade HVAC systems to limit spread of COVID-19 and last updated 2021-01-31 22:20:36-05 BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (WXYZ) — The end of another shutdown is almost over, as restaurants across Michigan are getting ready to let their customers back inside. “We are so excited just to have people in here and to be warm again,” said Rachel Stemplewski, Taproom Manager at Griffin Claw Brewing in Birmingham. "People have been out there in the snow, in the rain, in the freezing cold br...

Throughout this year, unlike any we’ve ever seen, Whitmer has remained disciplined, focused and on message, despite organized protests of her COVID-19 emergency orders, a murder plot engineered by domestic terrorists and a recalcitrant Legislature. And in the last statewide poll, taken in December, she continued to score unusually high approval ratings. However many protesters thronged to the state Capitol, a majority of Whitmer’s constituents has been willing to believe that she is on the...

January 29, 2021 The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity has announced an expansion of a state program designed to help restaurants keep customers and staff safe. That’s as restaurants are scheduled to resume in-person dining with 25% capacity and a 10 p.m. curfew on Monday. The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity has released the following: The State of Michigan is expanding on the new MI COVID-19 Safer Dining Program. Under the voluntary program, rest...

West Michigan Restaurants Prepare For Indoor Dining Indoor dining at West Michigan bars and restaurants resumes on Monday, February 1. Restaurants are taking the weekend to prepare with guidelines in place. Relaxed rules have been released by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as part of new epidemic order. The order contains certain requirements that include: Restaurants and bars can reopened at 25% capacity with up to 100 people. Tables must be six feet apart with no more th...

WXYZ and last updated 2021-01-29 13:21:40-05 (WXYZ) — The State of Michigan is expanding its new Safer Dining Program. The program promotes ventilation in Michigan restaurants and food establishments. Under the program, restaurants utilize a licensed HVAC contractor or engineer to inspect their ventilation systems and receive recommended changes to improve circulation within their workplace and reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread. The state is encouraging restaurants to have their HVAC syst...

Michigan urges restaurants to beef up ventilation to protect against COVID-19 Updated Jan 29, 2021; Posted Jan 29, 2021 FILE - This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab.NIAID-RML via AP Facebook Share Many of the COVID-19 precautions restaurants can take are...

Ventilation inspections recommended as part of MI Safe Dining Program A sign showing that businesses are open despite recent COVID-19 outbreaks in downtown East Lansing is pictured Jun. 30, 2020. — Photo by Matt Schmucker | The State News As indoor dining prepares to be reopened acros...