- December 22, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Bay Area restaurants brace for decline in business amid omicron surge
KTVU’s Christien Kafton reports.
SAN FRANCISCO – The latest surge in the omicron variant of COVID is impacting restaurants around the Bay Area as the busy holiday season kicks into high gear.
Restaurants are bracing for the possibility of a decrease in business and are urging staff to get boosted.
Some restaurants are still struggling to recover from the impact of the pandemic over the last 20 months and anticipate another possible jolt.
In the East Bay, Snail Bar in Oakland posted on social media that it’s starting their planned winter break early because a staff member had been exposed to someone who’d tested positive COVID. The restaurant plans to reopen in January.
The head of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Restaurant Association said restaurants face the potential hit of having to shell out sick pay without federal reimbursement, even as they have to close their…
