Updated: 5:35 PM EST Jan 22, 2021 By Phil Yacuboski Baltimore restaurants and bars started to reopen Friday morning after weeks of mandated closures for in-person dining, but some argue it's still not enough to keep them profitable.|| Coronavirus updates | Maryland's latest numbers | Get tested | Vaccine Info ||Mayor Brandon Scott announced Wednesday that restaurants and bars could reopen at 25% capacity for indoor dining and 50% capacity for outdoor dining starting at 6 a.m. Friday as long as customers are out of the establishment within one hour."Twenty-five percent, unfortunately, the numbers just don't work," said Rob Frisch, co-owner of the Mount Washington Tavern. "And the one-hour dining window, that doesn't make any sense to us."Scott closed restaurants six weeks ago to in-person dining, and bars that don't serve food were closed when Mayor Jack Young was still in office.The co-owners of Mount Washington Tavern said between ordering food for customers and managing a low takeout business, it's not profitable unless the restrictions are eased even further."It's easier to run it at 100% than it is at these smaller percentages," said Dave Lichty, co-owner of the Mount Washington Tavern. "At 100%, we can make this place go like there's no tomorrow, but (it's tough) when you have to have a certain amount of employees and you really don't know how much food to buy -- produce has to come every day, fresh produce, fresh seafood."Both Frisch and Lichty said with the winter months and forecasted snow, outdoor dining doesn't work and their takeout business isn’t enough to keep them afloat. They've been able get Paycheck Protection Program funds from the federal government, but, for now, their 70 employees will remain off the job."We've got over 400 years combined tenure here amongst our employees, and it breaks our heart that they aren’t working," Frisch said.Both said the financial losses for them have been devastating -- in the hundreds of thousands of dollars."This is a quiet time of the year, but when we get into spring, that's our time to go with graduations, Preakness, all of the lacrosse around here," Lichty said. "We should be gearing up and getting ready for that right now, not sitting at home wondering what we're doing tomorrow."The owners said they hope the city makes a decision soon so they can reopen at a higher capacity and get back to business.