Restaurants in B.C. are now allowed to reopen to dine-in customers for the first time in two months under the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are many protocols in place in order to keep both customers and staff safe and to maintain social distancing. These are not regulations but guidelines businesses can follow to develop their own plan that works for them.
However, on May 15, the Office of the Provincial Health Officer issued an order that restaurants, bars and cafes must now not exceed 50 per cent of their usual capacity of patrons at any one time.
There must be no more than six people at one table and each table must be two metres apart from each other or from the bar or counter.