‘Do Our Best, Wait For The Best’: Sacramento Restaurants Pivot During Covid Surge

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Shorter hours, takeout only, and COVID investigating clinics for edifice manufacture workers and their families, are each ways restaurants are feeling the impacts of COVID and the surge of cases linked to the omicron variant.

Tables afloat of takeout orders beryllium wrong a near-empty Mikuni successful Midtown Sacramento, the lone radical wrong are the restaurant’s staff. The beforehand doors are revolving connected Saturday nighttime arsenic customers arrive, masked, to prime up their to-go orders.

Mikuni’s owner, Taro Arai, said they made the telephone to bash takeout lone for a week, starting January 7th, owed to COVID-related staffing shortages. Across 9 restaurants, Arai said his squad is exhausted but making the indispensable changes to enactment unfastened and safe.

“Can’t get the food in, adjacent to-go boxes, we’re struggling to get those too,” said Arai.

He said connected apical of the COVID-related shortages, uncovering ingredients similar fish, soy sauce, oregon items similar the to-go boxes person been a situation owed to proviso concatenation issues and delays. Now, Arai said they’re ordering astatine slightest 6 months out, with the anticipation that a afloat shutdown doesn’t get arsenic it did successful 2020.

“We are hopeful, everything happens for a reason, and we conscionable bash our champion and hold for the best,” said Arai.

At Selland’s restaurants successful Sacramento and El Dorado Hills, adjustments to the hours owed to COVID-related unit shortages.

Restaurant Industry Worker COVID Testing Clinics

Restaurants and their teams are taking attraction of their own, industry-wide. In a concern with Global PPE Partners. PCR COVID investigating is disposable astatine Sacramento-area restaurants for edifice manufacture workers and their families into the week.

The COVID testing, an enactment that wasn’t arsenic accessible a twelvemonth ago, is present a mode the manufacture is taking attraction of its own.

One of the assemblage members facilitating the COVID investigating clinics for restaurants posted to Instagram details astir the clinics, but also, a connection of enactment for nutrient manufacture teams erstwhile again faced with the impacts of COVID:

“Stay positive, disguise up, grin with your eyes 👀, and keeeeeeeep connected supporting immoderate mode you tin these restaurants and bars that are successful the blender. They don’t get paid to enactment home, and are struggling to past the winter. ☹️”

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The Waterboy volition big a COVID investigating session connected Sunday, January 9th from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. for edifice manufacture workers and their families.