Owner closes five OTR restaurants and bars for COVID-19 testing because employee likely positive – The Cincinnati Enquirer

A chef who owns five restaurants and bars in Over-the-Rhine is closing the firms right now time to ascertain all workers for COVID-19.

Daniel Wright says on Fb that he’s making the pass because an worker at one in every of the firms, Pontiac Bourbon & BBQ on Vine Aspect road, suggested his or her employer Monday that they’ve possible examined definite for the illness induced by the novel coronavirus.

“The group member used to be fully asymptomatic and had examined out of caution attributable to doable exposure,” Wright said.

“I are seeking to divulge for the file that our company is going above and beyond what’s being asked for us to blueprint by the local neatly being departments. We behavior temperature exams on all team, all team are required to wear masks, we present huge amounts of sanitizer, gloves, glass partitions, lowered seating capacities, etc. 

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“What we realize is that no topic exceeding the desired protocols and with very limited federal or divulge steering that extra needs to be done,” Wright said.

‘This is going on all over our country’

“This is going on all over our country whether americans are at work or on rush.”

Wright also owns these firms in Over-the-Rhine: the Senate Restaurant on Vine Aspect road, the Abigail Aspect road restaurant on Vine Aspect road, the Forty Thieves restaurant on Flee Aspect road and the Vacation Spirits bar on Flee Aspect road.

Besides, Wright owns the Senate-Blue Ash in Blue Ash.

Wright said restaurants could deem requiring month-to-month or bi-month-to-month critical team checking out till the COVID-19 pandemic ends.

“What we desire everyone to know that right here’s not something that we take hang of evenly, right here’s not something we’re being compelled to blueprint. This is something we’re picking to blueprint catch obvious that every person’s safety below unprecedented conditions,” Wright said.

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