Chicago restaurants banded together Monday to fight Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for customers.
As CBS 2’s Tara Molina reported, restaurateurs said they don’t have enough time, or staff, to implementREAD MORE:The Chicago Restaurant Coalition hand-delivered a formal request to Mayor Lightfoot’s office Monday, asking for a little more time to change their operations so they can afford to check people’s COVID-19 vaccination cards.
The mandate applies to the city’s 7,000 restaurants and their customers as of Monday, Jan. 3, when businesses have to start checking vaccine cards and IDs. “This is my family’s restaurant that I’ve owned for 43 years. I will do whatever it takes to support that and keep my staff and customers safe, but give me some understanding of why this is happening?” Tuzi said.
Molina reached out to the Mayor’s office and the city’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection on the mandate and how it will be enforced.
“Stunned by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s sudden Dec. 21 order that 7,000 restaurants must start demanding proof of COVID vaccines from indoor-dining customers starting Jan. 3, Chicago voters and businesses in the Chicago Restaurants Coalition are pushing back.
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