The Executive Vice President of the National Restaurant Association, Sean Kennedy, over New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, threatened to close the restaurants for defying the coronavirus guidelines.
Not long after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo banned bars from serving alcohol to customers unless they ordered food, a pub in Saratoga got creative: It introduced $ 1 “Cuomo Chips”.
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Harvey’s restaurant and bar in Saratoga Springs added the snack to comply with the governor’s latest coronavirus edict, which was issued Thursday and did not explicitly state that the chips were not sufficient to satisfy the requirement.
The rule was intended to help prevent a second spike in COVID-19 cases in the state, which was once an epicenter of the pandemic, even when they increase in the rest of the country.
Soon after, Steve Maugeri, a CBS 6 Albany-WRGB reporter, shared on social media a photo of a receipt showing a single order for the bar’s Cuomo Chips chips, and it quickly went viral.
“Cuomo’s chips are fine,” Harvey co-owner and CEO Matthew Bagley told FOX Business. “The reason we came up with it is because, you know, we’ve constantly evolved and changed as executive orders are transmitted … Now we have to impose another limitation on our guests, so we call them ‘Cuomo Chips’ because we have to get you to buy food. “
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Folding them Cuomo Chips was not a political movement, he said.
“We were doing it to clarify the situation, not to clarify the pandemic, but to clarify the approval of another executive order,” Bagley explained. “You never bring politics or religion to a bar. So it’s unfortunate that people are changing things a little bit, but that’s the nature of going viral. “
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In a conference call with reporters on the matter, Cuomo said New York City had received 5,000 recorded complaints from residents who violated social distancing measures.
“If you’re not eating, and you’re just drinking, then it’s just an open-air bar and people are mixing and not isolated at individual tables,” said the Democratic governor. “And that is what we are seeing.”
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Bagley said he received mixed opinions on whether the Irish pub complies with the Cuomo rule, but consulted with the State Liquor Authority and was told that potato chips served with sauce or other sauce would meet the new standard.
Since introducing them, their popularity with locals has prompted Harvey’s to expand its offerings to flatbread, pretzels, and pizza rolls, all of which provide an extra measure of certainty.
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