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More than 40% of small- to medium-sized Houston businesses surveyed by PNC Financial Services Group said they plan to require employees to get vaccinated.
About three quarters of the business owners said they are at least encouraging staff to get the shot, more than one third will provide assistance to get it and one in five say they will incentivize it.
At Houston Event Planning and its venue, Signature Manor, employees get paid time off to get the vaccine and, if necessary, recover from it. We re not mandating the vaccine, that they have to take it, Executive Vice President Katherine Cheng-Arif said. But we are strongly encouraging it because we re in an environment where we re constantly around people as event planners and as a venue. Sometimes you have 100 people, sometimes you have 350 people.
For the past 21 years, La Cocina in Richmond has served authentic Mexican food.
However, being in business that long almost came to an end during the COVID-19 outbreak. We were this close, La Cocina owner Andres Novoa explained. We were just hanging in there, and we managed to pull through.
Although they persisted through the thick of the pandemic, Novoa said business still isn t the same.
The flow of business could change next week after Gov. Abbott declared an end to the statewide mask mandate. He also ended capacity restrictions, stating businesses can go back to full operations beginning Wednesday.