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Restaurants Take
Precautions As
COVID Rises
JEWISH EXPONENT
HYMIE’S DELI OWNER Louis
Barson is considering putting
away the pickle bar again, less
than a month aft er putting it
back in the Lower Merion deli’s
dining area, worrying about the
spread of germs.

Barson, like some other
Jewish restaurant owners, is
concerned about the impact the
more contagious delta variant
of the coronavirus will have on
the health of his workers and
on his business.

COVID-19 cases
in Pennsylvania have risen 164%
since two weeks ago, according
to Th e New York Times and
Department of Health and
Human Services. In the United
States, 80% of new COVID-19
cases are the delta variant.

New York Mayor Bill de
Blasio announced on Aug.

3 that, in the coming weeks,
vaccinations would be required
for patrons of restaurants,
gyms and other indoor venues.

Philadelphia does not have a
citywide vaccine requirement,
but some restaurants in the
city, such as Martha, Le Virtu
and Vetri Cucina have taken
it upon themselves to enact a
vaccine mandate.

Michael Solomonov and
Steve Cook will require proof
of vaccination for indoor
dining at restaurants Abe
Fisher, Zahav and Laser Wolf
starting on Aug. 31. Th ey
will have no requirements for
Goldie, Federal Donuts, K’Far
and Dizengoff , and Solomonov
and Cook declined a request
for further comment.

Hymie’s will not require
proof of vaccination at this
point, but the restaurant has
reinstated a masking policy for
its staff ; all employees must
now wear a mask, though most
are vaccinated. If cases in the
area keep rising, Barson will
ask customers to do the same
when they enter the restaurant.

“Hopefully this is just a
half a step back, not four steps
back,” Barson said.

Barson reached out to
Montgomery County Health
Department to see if it had
any insight on whether the
state or county would enact
any new precautions. It didn’t,
Barson said, but Hymie’s will
be cautious anyway.

Barson recently ordered
a sign to post outside the
restaurant “kindly” asking
customers to wear a mask.

He said he didn’t want to get
into politics with anyone or
argue, especially if there wasn’t
a law in place that required
patrons to wear masks or to get
vaccinated. However, according to
Barson, more and more
customers were wearing masks
these past few weeks.

Along with increased precau-
tions is also increased fear. Barson
noticed that his customers’
mannerisms are diff erent: People
are more conscious of others
getting too close to them, a
behavior Barson thought dissi-
pated in June and July, when
COVID-19 cases were lower.

“It’s sad to see,” Barson
said. “Th at’s not the way it’s
supposed to go.”
Schlesinger’s owner Allan
Domb, the real estate devel-
oper and city councilman, also
noticed more mask-wearing in
his deli’s dining room.

Schlesinger’s never
completely returned to its
pre-pandemic layout: the tables
in the deli are still spaced out,
and plastic boundaries above
the cash register remain.

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Hymie’s Deli will ask customers to wear masks in the restaurant if COVID-19 cases in the area continue to
rise. Courtesy of Hymie’s Deli
The deli also recommended
mask-wearing but doesn’t
require it.

Schlesinger’s precautions do
not include a vaccine require-
ment and won’t unless the
Philadelphia Department of
Public Health says otherwise.

“We’re going to follow the
city’s direction and will comply
with everything the city
requests us to do,” Domb said.

A handful of Jewish-owned
restaurants in the area declined
comment on whether they
would require vaccination for
their patrons; the topic is polar-
izing and politicized. Though
the number of restaurants
with vaccination policies is
growing, they total fewer than
15 in Greater Philadelphia, as
of Aug. 10.

One of the Philadelphia
restaurants that implemented a
vaccine requirement, Martha,
which is not Jewish-owned,
recognized that. It hopes that,
by creating the policy, other
restaurants will have the confi-
dence to follow.

“We are not telling people
to get the vaccine; we are not
turning people away,” said
Olivia Caceres, Martha’s
general manager.

Instead, if a customer is not
vaccinated or does not present
proof of vaccination, the restau-
rant will seat them outside.

Martha wants to protect its
employees, who are not able
to qualify for unemployment
benefits if the restaurant shuts
down again.

“We’re trying to do what
we can to prevent another
shutdown by putting this
policy in place, which is small,
and it’s something we can only
do within our space,” Caceres
said. “But if other bars and
restaurants are doing that
as well, that makes a bigger
impact.” Like Caceres, Domb is also
worried about staffing, but for
other reasons; since the start of
the pandemic, he’s had several
employees leave and has been
short-staffed. The other month,
Domb was a server all day on
Sunday. Three weeks ago, the
deli closed for the day because
there were not enough staff.

Domb is concerned about
what the lasting impacts of the
pandemic will be on all restau-
rants in the Philadelphia area,
but also on businesses like his:
old-school, nostalgic delis.

“To many people, going
to a delicatessen brings back
tremendous memories of being
with their parents and their
grandparents,” Domb said.

“People love it.” l
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