It’s anything but business as usual at Surrey’s Vital Manufacturing Inc. The manufacturing company was busy building machinery for clients in the food-service sector.
Then came the novel coronavirus pandemic, and company president Joshua Bradshaw thought about ways to keep food-service workers and customers safe.
The result? The Cap Shield, a wearable barrier that can be attached to hats or visors via custom-made clips. “We would go through drive-thrus, looking inside restaurant kitchens; we would notice that almost everybody in there was already wearing a ballcap, but they had no protection between their face and the food they were preparing for us,” he said. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] “We