Texas restaurant sign threatens $ 50 fee ‘If I have to explain why masks are mandatory’

Texas restaurant sign threatens $ 50 fee ‘If I have to explain why masks are mandatory’

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The signal is ironic, but the husband and wife team did it in the name of the safety of their customers and employees.

“Our new surcharge,” says the sign.

“$ 75 – If I have to listen because you disagree …”

Wayne LaCombe told CNN that he had the idea after seeing a similar sign online.

“I thought, ‘Oh, this is funny. I’m going to put this on because it sends a message,'” he said. “And not even five minutes after I put it on, the customers coming in were laughing and taking pictures of it.”

To take the message home, one of his servants, an art student, painted a woman wearing a mask at the restaurant window with a caption that said the masks are respectful, not political.

One of the waiters painted a woman wearing a mask at the restaurant window.

As of March 10, Governor Greg Abbott loosened restrictions designed to halt the spread of Covid-19, including ending the mask requirement and allowing all companies to reopen 100%. Abbott did this because Covid-19’s active cases and hospitalizations dropped to levels not seen in months.

Critics of the decision said it was too early, citing the small percentage of the number of Texans vaccinated at the time and spreading variants of the virus.

LaCombe said that he and his wife received the first doses of the vaccine, but many of his employees have not yet been vaccinated.

The restaurant’s tables are spaced, reduced capacity, employees wear masks and wash their hands between going to each table and taking everyone’s temperature before entering the building. There is also hand sanitizer on all tables.

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He said two couples came on Friday and said it was the first time they had eaten at a restaurant since the pandemic began.

“We feel very honored and privileged that they chose us,” he said.

He said that they got a great response from their customers and that some neighboring companies congratulated them for making a statement, but there were has complained online.

Kat LaCombe is a retired cancer nurse with 28 years of experience and responded to some of the criticisms in a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page.

“All we ask is that customers wear a mask when they pass another person who is eating and is not wearing the mask,” she wrote. “Of course, it doesn’t seem to ask for much … but apparently it is.”

The LaCombes opened their restaurant in October 2019 and had to close for two and a half months because of the pandemic.

Wayne LaCombe said he is not sure the company will survive if they have to close again.

“We have a race that is not over yet, and when the numbers go up, our business goes down,” he said. “So yes, it is very urgent that we keep the numbers low.”

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