Restaurant Ignoring State COVID-19 Mandates Temporarily Closes - Pittsburgh, PA - The Crack'd Egg in Brentwood is closed after a legal defeat in its quest to defy Pennsylvania coronavirus restaurant safety protocols.
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The owner of the Brentwood restaurant ordered to comply with covid-19 masking orders said in a Facebook Live video Wednesday night that “it is not over by a long shot.”
Kimberly Waigand told those watching that she was not backing down, but she would not break the law.
“We’re going to keep up the good fight,” she said with the Tom Petty song “I Won’t Back Down” playing in the background. “We’re not backing down.”
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The Crack’d Egg, a Brentwood restaurant that is embroiled in a legal dispute with Allegheny County, is seeking to withdraw its separate Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
A hearing on the bankruptcy matter is scheduled for Feb. 23.
In the Monday filing, the restaurant’s attorneys wrote that the Chapter 11 bankruptcy “was filed primarily due to a dispute between the debtor and the Allegheny County Health Department regarding debtor’s compliance with ACHD cover guidelines.”
In August, the health department ordered the Brownsville Road restaurant to close because it refused to follow the governor’s state mandated covid-19 mitigation measures requiring masks and social distancing.
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An Allegheny County judge on Friday ordered an evidentiary hearing in the county health department’s request for an immediate injunction against a Brentwood restaurant continuing to operate despite closure orders issued more than five months ago.
Attorneys for the Allegheny County Health Department asked Judge John McVay to enforce an Aug. 11 closure order against the Crack’d Egg – an order issued for the restaurant’s repeated flouting of covid-19 mitigation measures in place since early last year.