Brian R.
Yelp
"I love Lynora's Market. I live close by. It's been my go-to since I moved here. So why am I dropping it to a single star? They've hit total COVID fatigue, and it's not , IMHO, safe for me to eat here, for a while. Here's why.
I walked in, to pick up take out. It's a big, airy, converted garage. They had removed tables, but now there was one sitting about three feet from the register line. With a very old man, his nurse, and a dog. A very old man is trying to eat, mask off.
I look over the top of him. The Pizzaolo with the mustache is flipping someone's pizza, inches from his face, as he's tossing it back, and forth. He's chatting it up with the chef, about two feet away. One of the waitresses is about 3 feet behind them, listening, mask mouth-only too.
How can I tell that the pizzaolo has has a mustache?
His mask is a chin cover.
At a food prep station.
That's okay. Chef is showing a fine example, as he's pretty much always nose down. I won't deign to tell the man how to cook. He's really good. I will however, apparently, fill in where his parents seem to have let him down: Your nose and your mouth are CONNECTED.
It even says so, right on the warning signs that your owners post for the public.
I look at the very old man. Poor guy wants a night out, in an open-air cafe, where maybe he can go, with his dog, and get a little relief for a while.
Lynora's is too upscale to be one of the McGrazeries, where people eat to fill their bellies, without a whole lot of care about the McGray Encharolarita Buffaloized demifoods. numbly consume their 2,000 calorie daily limit in their supper sewage. It's fast-casual, but trattoria, not trash-dining where the McWorkers are simply slogging a j-o-b for the c-a-s-h.
So the mission, I would think, is to serve up not only really good food, but a really good experience.
How good of an experience can it be, if the as-yet asymptomatic pizzaolo, who, like the 59% of people who pass it along, and look healthy, refuses to wear his mask. What happens if he gets a few hundred people sick?
How bad would he feel, if he ever finds out that the 90-ish guy, sitting at the table, that has no business being placed that close to the cashier, and customers, or to the pizzaolo, got sick, at the exact time that COVID is getting worse, and the vaccines are far from availble?
I UNDERSTAND that everyone is tired of this. Having to work in a kitchen, with a mask, for hours, I get. I do it too.
Still, it seems to me, again, IMHO, that it's a little selfish to figure that, if you get it, it won't be that bad. It's not about us, in the kitchen. It's about the guests, and their health, and well-being.
You want to roll that way, pizzaolo?
Fine. STAY HOME.
Don't work in a place, especially in a neighborhood where the seasonal snow vultures are notoriously aging, and vulnerable. Especially when your owner puts up the show of splash screens, clean pens, and sanitizers. You guys, 8 feet away from the guests, in the OPEN AIR KITCHEN, clearly put your patrons at risk, if you don't cover your nose and mouth, while you're working. You also risk infecting your co-workers, and their families. It's almost been a year of this. It shouldn't be a news-flash.
COVID is in its second wave. More than 21,673 deaths in Florida. 1.3M infections, as of January 10th.
Based on what I saw, and I've been seeing, you have slid into not caring about this, about us, your patrons.
Love ya, but see ya, if you can't make my food safely, and keep your customers, like me, and the old guy, safe.
(Sorry.)