Pickups, deliveries and pickups will be allowed at the restaurant after 10 p.m. Last call for alcohol in restaurants and bars will be at 9 p.m.
See chart below for latest city and state COVID statistics.
Lightfoot says she hopes the sanctions will only apply for two weeks. Grocery stores, pharmacies, food delivery and take-outs are excluded from the curfew.
He tells people to limit their gatherings to less than six.
“We have to go deeper. This is a crucial moment for us, and it’s really going to determine what we’re all going to experience in the coming months,” he told a news conference today. “I can’t underestimate that profile enough and I can’t underestimate it: what we do now will make a difference between what our future looks like and what it could be, even if we’re a city that is back for the nation.” Is a model, or…. “The data point on the spread of COVID-19 that seems to be spiraling out of control.”
Sam Toiya, president and CEO of the Illinois Restaurant Association, said the positivity of the city’s current test is growing higher, with the mayor likely banning it before the governor’s more drastic move. For that to happen, the city will need three times in a row. More than 8 percent test days.
Once the area figure is exceeded, the state’s mitigation plans call for bars and restaurants to close from 11pm to 6am, with no indoor service allowed. This means that people without outside space will only return to offer a shop or delivery service.
“Once we hit the percentile, the mayor and his team are on the side, the governor’s plan comes pre-realized,” Toya says.
As of Oct. 1, Chicago’s interior facilities for restaurants, gyms, salons and non-essential retailers have been fixed at 40 percent. The bar was allowed to reopen with 25 percent capacity for indoor service – a maximum of 50 people in the room – and by the time alcohol was served until 1 p.m., the city’s percentage was about 4.5 percent and the average daily case was at 350. Today, they are at 6.4 and 645, respectively.
The restaurant association wrote a letter to Pritzker yesterday asking him to consider 25 per cent indoor capacity in areas where cooling is increasing in those days and fewer locations can offer outdoor options. The Chicago Tribune reports that some restaurants are openly rejecting the governor’s orders to shut down indoor service.
Fifty / Restaurant0 Rent Group, which owns Roots Handmade Pizza, Berkshire Room, West Town Baker and more, plans to close dining operations on its property and move on only, said co-owner Scott Weiner. .
Whether state or city command, Weiner said he expects the growing case count to push for a rollback soon.
“I think that’s the only thing that matters,” he said.
Prior to the outbreak, the group ran 20 rest restaurants and employed 700 people in the Chicago area. About a dozen of its properties have been reopened, and about 500 employees remain.
The restaurateur rental group will likely have to compensate its remaining of the remaining percent of employees with another shutdown, Weiner said.
“There are a lot of restaurants. . . They are now complete. They have no money left in the bank, ”he said. “I know we’re going to survive. I just have to make sure there is business when things are able to reopen. “
