A Colorado restaurant defied the state’s coronavirus restrictions on Mother’s Day by opening up its dining room to dozens of maskless diners.
Customers at Cookies & Creme in Castle Rock — some of whom waited two hours to be seated — were also packed together closer than the recommended six feet distance, according to a video shot by Nick Puckett of Colorado Community Media.
The owner of the restaurant, April Arelleno, welcomed the crowd and thanked her supporters in a video statement to news station CBS4.
But under Colorado’s safer-at-home order, restaurants are only permitted to offer delivery or take-out services.
The decision to open on Mother’s Day didn’t sit well with the local health department.
“We are disappointed that Cookies and Crème has decided to ignore the Governor’s Safer at Home order and open up today with no attention to social distancing,” the Tri-County Health Department said in a statement to CBS4.
“As the entity charged with enforcing the Governor’s statewide Safer at Home Public Health Order, we will follow up with this restaurant to ensure that they, like other restaurants in the county, take appropriate steps to protect the public health, by limiting service to curbside and take-out service.”
The restaurant did “what the government isn’t doing — opening,” a manager told the news station, who called the customers “patriots.”
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Customers at Cookies & Creme in Castle Rock — some of whom waited two hours to be seated — were also packed together closer than the recommended six feet distance, according to a video shot by Nick Puckett of Colorado Community Media.
The owner of the restaurant, April Arelleno, welcomed the crowd and thanked her supporters in a video statement to news station CBS4.
But under Colorado’s safer-at-home order, restaurants are only permitted to offer delivery or take-out services.
The decision to open on Mother’s Day didn’t sit well with the local health department.
“We are disappointed that Cookies and Crème has decided to ignore the Governor’s Safer at Home order and open up today with no attention to social distancing,” the Tri-County Health Department said in a statement to CBS4.
“As the entity charged with enforcing the Governor’s statewide Safer at Home Public Health Order, we will follow up with this restaurant to ensure that they, like other restaurants in the county, take appropriate steps to protect the public health, by limiting service to curbside and take-out service.”
The restaurant did “what the government isn’t doing — opening,” a manager told the news station, who called the customers “patriots.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...t-opens-despite-coronavirus-restrictions/amp/
