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Maxwell Reis drove to work Monday morning at Gracias Madre in West Hollywood with the unsettling feeling that things were moving too fast.
As restaurants across Los Angeles reopen to indoor diners, his workplace plans to open up 32 indoor seats Wednesday, the first time in roughly a year that people will eat inside there.
“I do think it’s incredibly rushed,” said Reis, the restaurant’s beverage director, referencing the county’s loosened restrictions on restaurants. He believes his restaurant can handle the shift to indoor dining safely, and is relieved to have received his first vaccine dose this month, presumably offering some protection against severe COVID-19. But the second dose is weeks away, “and now I need to be inside with people without their masks on.”