Guidelines Released for Some Businesses to Open May 20
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