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Hi friends. We need to talk. This City action today hurts our 69 year old Chicago business. It hurts us badly. https://twitter.com/bauerjournalism/status/1285249237274566662
@BauerJournalism Eliminating indoor service? We were already doing 95% outdoor. We could survive that.
But since we were (finally) allowed to reopen our patio in mid-June we’ve worked incredibly hard to offer safe service.
We require masks. We have hand sanitizer all over. We do temperature checks. We require you to sit.
To be ultra-safe We shut off our dart boards, pool table, and board games despite customer requests
And with the help of a modest PPP loan, a lot of hard work, and great customers we’ve slowed the losses (not stopped them).
Now? We’re basically being told to whack our outdoor seating occupancy from 58 to 34-36. That’s...hard.
We’ll of course buckle down & work even harder to try and survive. But now we can’t bring more staff back like we want to.
And with some of staff’s $600/week federal unemployment benefit maybe ending soon? That inability worries us. A lot.
