Restaurant Associations Release Guidance for Reopening
A handful of states, including Georgia, Tennessee and Alaska, have begun to allow restaurants to reopen—with some restrictions. Oklahoma and Texas plan to allow restaurants to reopen with limited capacity on May 1; Montana plans to do the same on May 4. Stay-at-home deadlines in other states are set to expire this week, with extensions or reopening plans to be revealed. In Georgia, which was the first state to allow restaurants to reopen as of midnight April 27, the Georgia Restaurant Association worked with the National Restaurant Association, representatives of the Food and Drug administration as well as academia, the Conference for Food Protection, Ecolab, public health officials and industry representatives to develop a set of opening and operating guidelines...