CT Small Business

Restaurants

• 50-percent capacity
• Outdoor dining only
• Tables 6 feet
• Bars closed
• Dance floors remain closed
• Contactless payments preferred
• High-contact areas and bathrooms cleaned frequently
• Tables & chairs sanitized between groups
• Paper or digital menus or posted on chalkboard/whiteboard
• Packaged or rolled silverware
• Hand sanitizer & cleaning wipes available at entrance and exit
• Employees to wear facemasks or cloth face coverings
• Table servers to wear disposable gloves, changed frequently
• Customers wear facemasks or cloth face coverings except while dining

Personal Services

For Hair Salons:

• Maximum 50-percent capacity
• Appointments only
• Waiting rooms closed
• Workstations 6 feet apart
• Physical barriers where possible
• Contactless payments preferred
• Tools soaked in disinfectant between clients
• Hand sanitizer & cleaning wipes at entrance points
• High-contact areas & bathrooms cleaned frequently
• Limit conversation where possible.
• Employees to wear facemasks and face shields or eye protection
• Employees to provide clean smock for each customer
• Customers to wear facemasks or cloth face coverings
• Increased ventilation and airflow where possible
• Blow drying hair will be prohibited

Retail

• Maximum 50-percent capacity
• Fitting rooms closed
• Physical barriers at checkout
• Markers indicate 6-foot distance in line and at door
• Self-serve counters closed
• Contactless payments preferred
• Hand sanitizer & cleaning wipes at entrance points
• Bathrooms cleaned frequently
• High-contact areas cleaned frequently (carts/baskets, door handles, credit card machines)
• Employees to wear facemasks or cloth face coverings at all times
• Customers to ear facemasks or cloth face coverings at all times

Malls will be allowed to reopen on May 20 as long as they follow the guidelines.

Offices

• Maximum 50-percent capacity
• Work from home where possible
• Meetings subject to 5-person limit
• Employees seated 6 feet apart, leave empty desks where necessary
• Physical partitions where possible
• Limit elevator capacity
• High contact areas & bathrooms cleaned frequently
• Common areas & lobbies cleaned frequently
• Limit equipment sharing
• Hand sanitizer & cleaning wipes at entrance and in common areas
• Employees to wear facemasks or cloth face coverings except when in a private office
• Increased ventilation and airflow where possible