Redondo Beach diner Eat at Joe's is continuing to serve customers outdoors despite Los Angeles County shutting down both indoor and outdoor dining, and the restaurant owner has unfurled a giant banner mocking Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Draped over the diner's normal sign is a giant banner that reads "The French Laundry" and "Patio Dining," complete with the restaurant's signature font and color scheme. Underneath the banner is another one that announces the diner's normal outdoor dining service.
Jordan told KTLA no one has ordered him to stop serving customers since the ban took effect, and said he has been following all guidelines for serving customers including spacing out tables and requiring employees to wear masks.
“COVID is a terrible thing. There is no argument there,” Jordan told KTLA. “But I’m not sure that picking on restaurants to such a degree is the answer. It hasn’t been proven through any medical numbers that eating outside is causing this. So why do they have to close us down? We are following all the rules to a T, and still they want to close us down.”
He stated that he's defying the orders specifically because his employees need the money ahead of the holiday season.
“We’re still open because I have very loyal employees who have been with me for many, many years, and putting them out of work without any government aid or stimulus or help four weeks before Christmas time is just not OK in any way, shape or form with me,” he said. “The fact that they are letting other businesses be open 20%, or 25%, and penalizing us doesn’t seem fair.”
Los Angeles County has come under fire for tightening its health order to prohibit outdoor dining, which is something no other California county has done amid the current surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the state.
Restaurant owners have tried to lobby Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to intervene, but the decision was made at the county and not city level. Pasadena was the only Los Angeles County city to continue to allow outdoor dining since the city is under the jurisdiction of its own health department, but officials may suspend outdoor dining there as well after a horde of people across Southern California descended on the city to eat outdoors.
December 01, 2020 at 03:06AM
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-French-Laundry-troll-restaurant-COVID-15763691.php
SoCal restaurant trolls Gavin Newsom with 'French Laundry' banner over normal sign - SFGate
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