They don't take this pandemic seriously here. I walked out before ordering.
I have been to this restaurant *several times more* than any restaurant in Eugene. I'm a regular. Some of the staff and I greet each other by name. This is a good restaurant, with hard-working, friendly staff. I've met the owners, a couple. They seem terrific, and the staff have told me they are. I met one of them while she was providing food for a Black Lives Matter rally. Sweet.
But...
I have only been to Morning Glory once since the pandemic got worse in March 2020. Recently I thought I'd go show them some support and have a good breakfast. There's a sign on the door saying masks are required. But when I was seated inside I looked around and saw almost all the customers without a mask. The two tables nearest me had five people who were facing me talking, not eating or drinking -- and not wearing masks. Three had not yet ordered, two were getting ready to leave.
It's not worth it. I got up and approached a table with a woman and what appeared to be her two teenaged sons, maskless. They were about to tell the server their orders.
I said, "Excuse me, I drove a half hour to have breakfast here. But I'm leaving because you're not wearing masks, and they are not requiring you to. You should wear masks." The lady pointed to people who were leaving another table and said, "They're not wearing masks." As if that was an excuse.
The server told me, "We don't require people to wear masks once they're seated. You are welcome to leave."
Really? I was well on my way out. She acted like I was being rude. In any other circumstance it would have been rude of me.
But we are dying. It's getting worse in this country.
As soon as I got in my car the news on the radio led with nearly 150,000 COVID deaths nationwide. We lead the world in COVID deaths. COVID cases in Oregon are rising at an unprecedented rate.
Restaurants are helping no one being lax in enforcing the common sense protection of a mask. I now don't care if a place like Morning Glory survives. And it's my favorite restaurant! I'd rather it go out of business and the owners and staff and customers live through this than it and other restaurants stay open until more and more of their customers and staff get sick and die.
SOLUTION: Morning Glory and all restaurants could at least have signs up and on every table reading something like, "While seated please keep masks on except only when eating and drinking." And enforce it. Or close.
One hundred and fifty thousand people -- dead.
Just after writing this post a news stories is out: "Coronavirus outbreaks could be stopped if everyone used masks, washed their hands, and kept apart from others, a new study finds." Hmm read more