Restaurants that want to make it harder for them to survive part one

 

New York Post August 1, 2021

Fashionable Soho brasserie Balthazar may start requiring indoor diners to show proof of vaccination, according to famed owner Keith McNally.

The move would bring the swanky French restaurant — which reopened in March after being closed for an entire year — in line with Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group, which said Thursday it would require proof of vaccination for indoor diners at its New York and Washington, D.C., restaurants. 

I used to have some connections in the restaurant world as I knew a bunch of people who worked in various joints across the city. I either had done the taxes for a joint they used to work at or had met them bouncing around. Or they came to hang out at Kevin St James where the wife was the general manager. So I often went into a new joint or ever a well known one and would know someone there. It didn't mean much. Maybe a free drink here or there or an desert on the arm. Mainly you got good service because they knew you would tip and they treated you right.

Anyway I knew this girl that was a manager at this restaurant. When I helped her out of a jam with her taxes she gave us a gift certificate to the restaurant. But somehow we never got around to using it because we were too busy.

I wonder if they would honor a gift certificate from 2005 if I have been vaccinated.