Suburban Bars Temporarily Close After Patrons Threaten Staff Over Pandemic Policies | Eater Chicago

"After weeks of confrontations over masks, patio policies, and other pandemic-related rules, owner Ryan Tracy briefly closed Beer on the Wall to give his staff a few mental-health days; in a late-August Facebook post he detailed that employees had endured three complaints that COVID procedures were too strict, one that they weren't strict enough, a trivia host who was physically threatened, and two additional threats aimed at servers for enforcing a state- and municipal-mandated patio pet policy, and he asked customers to be nice to each other and his workers during a stressful time." - Naomi Waxman