Temperature checks for guests and staff, masks and gloves for front-of-house workers and plexiglass between booths. Those are a few of the proposals from industry that could see British Columbia restaurant dining look very different once strict COVID-19 restrictions begin to ease up.
Restaurants were closed to dine-in customers by public health order in March, and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has since asked industry to propose measures that would allow them to safely reopen when the first wave of COVID-19 passes.
B.C. Restaurant and Foodservices Association president Ian Tostenson said his organization is now submitting a suite of such measures, developed in consultation with industry leaders, to government.