Business owners feeling impact of new COVID-19 rules ‘indirectly’
Gov. Tim Walz has placed more COVID-19 restrictions on people in the state, and some businesses in the area are feeling it more than others.
“Indirectly, he’s scaring people away from going out and eating,” Lazy Loon owner John Lueck said of Walz’s new order.
The added restrictions require owners of bars and restaurants to end dine-in services between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. Bar seating is also supposed to be closed unless the establishment only offers that type of indoor seating. Maximum indoor capacity has now been lowered to 150 people.
Events like weddings and funerals now have a 50-person cap, which will be phased down to 25. Receptions, like restaurants, also aren’t allowed to take place between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. Social gatherings have been affected too. Indoor and outdoor ones are limited to a 10-person limit between three households or less.
(For the complete story, see the Nov. 18 print edition of The Chronicle.)