Our effort and focus has been to work diligently to provide a safe atmosphere for our guests and employees.
The CDC guidelines state that you do not need to shut down your facility in most cases, but it is important to notify individuals that may have been directly exposed, and to clean/disinfect the restaurant.
We do everything we can to remain open, many people depend on our restaurants in order to make a living, to pay their bills and feed their families. We are fortunate to have a hard-working internal operational team to respond with immediacy once we hear of a positive test result or exposure, so that we can attempt to safely remain open or temporarily close if necessary.
Our response plan is as follows:
Validate the case
Notify all employees at this location
Personally call each employee that has come into direct contact with that employee, and have them get tested.
Notify the public on our website that there was a positive case, and provide the last date worked of the employee. We will respect the privacy of this employee and will be unable to provide a name, position or any other details.
Immediately contact our third-party cleaning company to clean/sanitize/disinfect the restaurant.
Keeping the restaurant open / temporarily closing will be contingent on our ability to have the restaurant cleaned first and foremost, as well as our ability to staff the restaurant with unaffected employees.