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My wife's daughter works for a company in Suwanee, GA that offers events inside a large venue. She is the sales manager and event planner. The company is going to open the venue that has a bar, food service, bowling lanes and a bunch of games tomorrow at 10am. The place is huge. A couple of things in their planning to re-open:
They can operate at 50% capacity but not greater than 5 people per 500 sq. ft. which equates to about 100 people - the place is huge, you would barely notice 100 people in it. Social distancing is required for table seating, playing games or bowling. The maximum size of a group at one table is 5. Counts occur as you enter the main facility. Once maximum is reached, as 4 people leave, for example, 4 more can come in.
For food service - pizza is their main item off a restricted menu - wait staff have to determine if the table being served is a family unit living under one roof or if they are friends gathering for a meal. The circumstance affects how the pizza is served. If a family unit, the whole pizza can be brought to the table and it becomes self serve. If not a family unit, the pizza has to be cut into slices and each slice hand delivered to individual diners.
The bar is open but you can't sit or stand at the bar to consume a beverage. Have to take the beverage to the seating area - some of it outside, some inside.
Now the kicker. Laid off employees are being called to return to work. Many of them "feel uncomfortable" returning. The real reason is that they are making about 25% more than they earn in salary and tips taking unemployment. I did not know this though. If an employer offers the laid off employee a return to work, an employee who refuses will lose the UIB. If the employer cannot provide compensation equal to the total UIB being received by the laid off employee, the difference can be claimed as UIBs ..... they have to reapply.
What's happening is a laid off employee is considered Tier 1 - i.e., they get offered to return first. If the employee refuses to return, they can be legally terminated and move on to Tier 2 - a new hire and their are plenty of candidates.
IOW, reopening is no picnic but rather a pain-the-ass with the likelihood of expense of operation to exceed income. The upside, however, is that opening, as long as it goes fairly well, feeds consumer confidence and instills interest in the brand. Over time, that will count.
They can operate at 50% capacity but not greater than 5 people per 500 sq. ft. which equates to about 100 people - the place is huge, you would barely notice 100 people in it. Social distancing is required for table seating, playing games or bowling. The maximum size of a group at one table is 5. Counts occur as you enter the main facility. Once maximum is reached, as 4 people leave, for example, 4 more can come in.
For food service - pizza is their main item off a restricted menu - wait staff have to determine if the table being served is a family unit living under one roof or if they are friends gathering for a meal. The circumstance affects how the pizza is served. If a family unit, the whole pizza can be brought to the table and it becomes self serve. If not a family unit, the pizza has to be cut into slices and each slice hand delivered to individual diners.
The bar is open but you can't sit or stand at the bar to consume a beverage. Have to take the beverage to the seating area - some of it outside, some inside.
Now the kicker. Laid off employees are being called to return to work. Many of them "feel uncomfortable" returning. The real reason is that they are making about 25% more than they earn in salary and tips taking unemployment. I did not know this though. If an employer offers the laid off employee a return to work, an employee who refuses will lose the UIB. If the employer cannot provide compensation equal to the total UIB being received by the laid off employee, the difference can be claimed as UIBs ..... they have to reapply.
What's happening is a laid off employee is considered Tier 1 - i.e., they get offered to return first. If the employee refuses to return, they can be legally terminated and move on to Tier 2 - a new hire and their are plenty of candidates.
IOW, reopening is no picnic but rather a pain-the-ass with the likelihood of expense of operation to exceed income. The upside, however, is that opening, as long as it goes fairly well, feeds consumer confidence and instills interest in the brand. Over time, that will count.
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