- June 16, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Lina Yea, owner of Bay Home & Linens boutique on San Mateo’s B Street, had something big to celebrate on June 15.
“Today is the first time we’re open with no limits to the number of people in the store,” she said cheerfully.
Granted, customers in droves weren’t clamoring to get in. Down the street, the colorful facade of Talbot’s Toyland had a “closed” sign on the door, thanking customers for 66 years of business, and B Street Books, selling used and collectible items, was observing its regular Tuesday closure.
Nearby, shoppers donned masks outside swanky grocer Draeger’s, waiting their turn outside to enter, and most of the restaurants on the Third Avenue, the main drag, lacked diners.
But the upscale fish house Pacific Catch’s parklet was filled with customers at wooden tables topped with bright blue bottles, and the Pancho Via Tacqueria had its usual lunchtime line out the door. It included Donna Lindsay, a masked…
