OLDS, ALTA. Several restaurants, pubs and cafes across rural Alberta plan to keep their doors open for indoor dining this Friday in defiance of public health restrictions. Take-out service and patio dining is simply not an option for some locations that could be on the brink of closing their doors, such as Olds, Alta.’s Tasty Thai restaurant. “It hurts the bottom line. My sales are down 40 per cent and no business can survive that with the cost of everything going up,” said owner Garnet Griepl. “There’s really no money for employees and it’s not fair for them. We take COVID very seriously in our restaurant, everything is sanitized after every visit and we don’t think this is where the problem lies, especially if Costcos and Walmarts can stay open.”