Some restaurant staff facing upset customers over proof-of-vaccination policy
CBC
Some restaurants on P.E.I. are dealing with a spike in upset customers following the roll-out of the provincial Vax Pass this week.
Anyone looking to dine-in at a restaurant now must provide proof of vaccination.
The general manager of Michaels Pizzeria in Summerside, Robert Gallant, said his staff are having to deal with upset people when they ask to see customers' proof of vaccination.
"It shouldn't be on us to have to do that. We're short-staffed right now, you know it's tough enough to try and find people to work right now. And to try and put people in place to man the door to make sure someone is there all the time so they don't slip by us … it's not going to be fun," Gallant said.
The new requirement hasn't just caused tensions between staff and customers. Arguments have broken out between patrons with proof of vaccination and those refusing to show it.
Gallant said an argument on Thursday night scared one of his younger employees. He's worried about staff safety, he said.
"To have that fighting in my dining room, she was scared, she was literally scared and that's not right."
This story is a collaboration between the Investigative Journalism Foundation and CBC Saskatchewan.
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