Saskatchewan residents ready for a good meal and a night out may have limited options come June 8, with some restaurant owners feeling wary of the reopening date.
The third phase of the province’s reopening plan will allow restaurants and bars to operate at half capacity. Dale Mackay, co-founder of Grassroots Restaurant Group, said that isn’t sustainable, so the group’s Saskatoon and Regina restaurants won’t open on June 8. “When you can only seat 50 per cent of people, that doesn’t mean 50 per cent of your costs have gone down,” MacKay told Global News. “Unless you’ve got … a good amount of cushion in your bank account, you might be reopening just to lose more money than you’re losing being closed.” Lacey Sellinger, co-owner of Odla