Atop inflation and staffing shortages, L.A. restaurant and bar owners express worry about 'policing' the public if masking returns.
The order, which could go into effect as soon as July 29, has raised concerns among business groups and sparked questions about its necessity.
“If I’m being blunt, you know, that’s always gonna be the thing that keeps me up at night,” Fleming said, adding: “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Lien Ta, co-owner of Silver Lake’s All Day Baby and Koreatown’s Here’s Looking at You, is also concerned with customer response. “Policing people at the door” is “the opposite of hospitality,” Ta said, and she and her staff have had less than polite interactions enforcing mask mandates in the past.
“It’s hard getting people to keep a mask on at the grocery store, let alone at a restaurant where they say, ‘We’re just going to take it off anyway.’ It’s very difficult to manage that kind of obstinate behavior,” Ta said. “I’m not really looking forward to that, and frankly, I don’t have the energy.”
Conversely, at All Day Baby, the crowd has slowed on weekdays; the more casual of her two restaurants, she admits, is more easily cut from the plans of a cautious or pandemic-wary customer than Here’s Looking at You, which sees more special-occasion celebrations. She feels helpless in the face of dropping walk-ins and cancellations, but, she says, what can she do?
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