frayne
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I'll be voting early and often.
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I'll be voting early and often.
OP here, very true but each of us can make our own decisions about where to spend our money and I personally am going to spend my money at businesses where masks are worn and other safety precautions taken. I don't think I will have any trouble finding such places to spend money.
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I hadn't eaten any prepared food since mid February. My craving for McDonald's got the best of me yesterday. A 1/4 pounder with cheese meal. It was to die for.
Unfortunately, whether or not to require a mask has taken on a partisan tone and found yet another way to divide the country.
Well played!Careful... I don't think I'm going to be using that expression to describe restaurant food for the foreseeable future.
Mod note: If this discussion is to continue, please keep it on target of the various shopping/spending you plan to do, and leave protests and partisanship out of the thread.
You must be from Chicago!I'll be voting early and often.
The OP was talking about choosing safety versus non safety conscious merchants. Not wholely avoiding industry sectors like your restaurant example. We’re saddened by the outlook for restaurants as well, but we will go to restaurants that take coronavirus seriously and avoid those less serious. We won’t be first in line, but we’ll continue to support them with carry out 3 times/week until we feel safe dining in. I fully expect some restaurants won’t survive coronavirus...Before all of this my husband and I dined out a lot. I really and truly want to support the businesses when they are allowed to reopen. But I see issues
So will I vote with my purse? Only if I see data showing minimal virus cases in my area. I am not optimistic there will be this data when we reopen.
I agree with many of the postings here regarding workers wearing PPE and taking COVID-19 seriously for safety reasons. However, shouldn't those safety processes/procedures extend to require customers to wear a mask (like Costco)? Establishments that extend such safety measures will surly get my vote.
I too am confused on exactly how restaurant patrons are going to manage wearing a mask during the dining experience.
Yes I think many of us are saying that "are you taking safety seriously" should apply to everyone in the establishment - customer and staff - or it's useless.
Restaurants with reduced capacity, eh...maybe that'll comfort me? Convert to more booths, plexiglass planes between tables maybe.
In FL, we typically have dinner outdoors when there is a patio table, we'll do that longer than normal this year, and look for places with well spaced seating.
Same here.
I'm in SE Fla so we'll be last to open, I'm missing my prime-outdoor-dinner months now, as April and May are usually perfect. I think we'll get restaurants open here later this month After June, I'll probably have to dress quite a bit more casually to withstand the heat, but a little sweat and frizzy hair will be worth the trade off.
Our favorite sushi place already has our one favorite outdoor table that is 8' away from the others. I've been doing take out with them all lock-down and plan to reserve that one table every week, even if it means changing to an off night or going a bit earlier.
That describes me. If a store requires me to wear a mask, I will go somewhere else. I suspect that most businesses will not want to turn away customers because they are not wearing a mask, but the issue may come to a head if most of the other customers get offended and leave or refuse to return because there are people present without masks, then the business owner will have to make a business decision about whether it is more profitable to prohibit customers who are not wearing masks or allow it.Of course there are people protesting the stores where it is mandatory. So we may get to a point where stores pick up some non-mask wearing customers while losing some mask-only customers.
Op here --in North Carolina masks are strongly recommended but not mandated. But some stores are requiring them.
It will be a while before LA city opens up anything. I am happy to order online for delivery. I have 4-5 stores to choose from: Costco, Amazon (Whole Foods), Walmart, and a couple of ethnic stores. I will continue to order online even after stores are open.
I am waiting for the local trailhead to open so I can go for a hike, with my mask on.