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Utah restaurants and bar can decide whether or not to continue their own mask requirements, now that health orders have been lifted..

| Updated: 1:40 p.m. Now that most public health orders have been lifted, restaurants and bars in Utah can choose what kind of COVID-19 safety measures if any they want to continue. Many business owners have kept rules about face coverings and social distancing in place while others seem to have gone back to pre-COVID times, not requiring any of the safety measures. Still others have landed somewhere in the middle, said Melva Sine, president of the Utah Restaurant Association, telling customers “your masks are welcomed but not required.” That gives customers on both sides of the hot-button issue a chance to do what makes them feel comfortable.

Low unemployment leading to high job vacancy in restaurants across Utah

Utah liquor agency reverses course, says 'beer to go' can stay at Utah restaurants and bars

| Updated: April 14, 2021, 3:56 a.m. In the early days of the pandemic, Mark Alston, the owner of The Bayou, purchased $3,000 worth of equipment that would allow his Salt Lake City bar to bottle and sell draft beer to go. Sales of the sealed containers were brisk, he said, until last week when bars and restaurants across the state received a letter from the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control saying sales of “beer to go” would no longer be allowed except in a few instances. The DABC is taking away “an important lifeline” for bars and restaurants, Alston told The Tribune. “At a time when to-go sales are mission-critical, it’s like cutting off one leg of a three-legged stool.”

Help wanted! Utah restaurants can't find enough employees to meet demand.

Help wanted! Utah restaurants can’t find enough employees to meet demand. Kathy Stephenson © Trent Nelson (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Blake Harmon, owner of Curry Up Now in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Utah restaurants and bars are having a difficult time finding employees. Curry Up Now, for example, has 10 open positions from kitchen manager to bartender to dishwasher. Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism. Blake Harmon has spent more than a month trying to recruit 10 new employees from managers and line cooks to dishwashers and servers for his restaurants in Salt Lake City and Midvale.

Utah restaurants can't find enough employees to meet demand.