On Friday, Contra Costa County took a step back towards normal - You can now enter restaurants and bars without having to show a vaccine card.
San Francisco will become the first Bay Area city to end indoor mask mandates for office workers, gym members and other stable cohorts of people.
The relaxation takes effect immediately and some restaurants say they're happy to see the loosening of some of the rules."I feel like I have to check everyone and be the police, which I really don't like to do that but I still had to do it," Dinc said. Others too, are happy to see the requirements go, and are comforted by the high level of vaccination in the community.
"It makes us feel more safer. It makes us work up to 100 percent of what we can do," said waitress Yazmin Martinez.But some diners still with mixed feelings - Relieved to be moving in the right direction, but remaining cautious. "I want to be safe. I want to have a good time. I want to have all these people have a good time. But I don't want to get sick," said diner Michael Skolnik.