Another day, another emergency order. Last night, Mayor Giménez signed a new amendment that would close dine-in service from midnight to 6am in restaurants allowed to seat more than eight people. The new mandate goes into effect tonight and affects restaurants across Miami-Dade. If you thinking rearranging some tables might work, it doesn’t. The order has to do with a restaurant’s capacity license, not its layout.
“We must take this action to tamp down Miami-Dade County’s recent rise in COVID-19 cases,” said Mayor Giménez in his emergency order. “Too many people were crowding into restaurants late at night, turning these establishments into breeding grounds for this deadly virus.” Staff, such as cleaning crews and janitors, will be allowed access to establishments but no on-site dining will be permitted.
This latest order follows the mayor’s ban on alcohol sales after midnight, which went into effect on Monday night. As the now-deleted Instagram account @covid_305 noted, numerous venues throughout the county continue to violate the rules of social-distancing, patrons aren’t wearing masks and the number of positive cases in Florida is still on the rise.
I’ve signed a new amendment to Emergency Order 23-20, ordering restaurants that seat more than eight people to close on-site dining from midnight to 6 a.m. anywhere in Miami-Dade County starting July 1st. More info: https://t.co/SQ6GhpP0gm @MiamiDadeCounty @MiamiDadeEM
— Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez (@MayorGimenez) July 1, 2020
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