Some San Francisco-area restaurants reinstate mask requirements, cut unvaccinated workers over new guidance

After San Francisco Bay Area health officials issued new guidance Friday recommending that everyone – even those who are vaccinated – should wear masks indoors, many restaurants are now reportedly requiring them again for their employees. 

"If anyone doesn’t want to get vaccinated, we will let them go," Zareen Khan, owner of Pakistani/Indian restaurant Zareen’s, told the newspaper. "It’s terrible, but we need people to understand this is serious. It’s better to be cautious than to be sorry." She said most of her employees are vaccinated.  Cases have ticked up across the state mostly due to the delta variant.