(05-08-2020, 04:37 PM)Snorlax94 Wrote: Generally, I've found larger, well-financed companies implementing smarter guidelines. Costco offers senior hours, they require masks, they reduce the # of people indoors, they have people inside constantly telling people to space and how to space (even educating some people to be less clueless and oblivious), they increase cleaning times, they provide sneeze guards for cashiers and receipt inspectors, and they wipe down carts.
Similarly, at my local Panda Express, I can order and pay online. No customers go inside, they've shifted a POS system outside to take orders (for anyone who didn't order online) and they've moved the actual pick up of food to the opposite end of the building, near the exit, also outdoors. No customers can enter the building. Everyone is wearing masks.
Then I go to my local pizza joint (with 3 locations). No one is wearing a mask. I can order by phone, but I have to pay when I get there. To get my pizza, I've got to wait in the lobby for 10 minutes. The cashier isn't wearing gloves. The pizza makers are in close proximity to each other because the kitchen is like a narrow hallway. The only HVAC is an overhead fan blowing the down onto the cashier and me. No windows or doors are open as far as I can see. This will be my last visit to this place.
This is also where it would've been nice to have more guidance from the CDC, and I'd like to see states and counties step it up both in terms of education and in terms of enforcement.
I imagine a great many of these smaller restaurants are well-intentioned but they don't have the staff and expertise to digest a pile of medical papers and to translate that into a list of concrete steps they can take to protect their employees and customers, and they wouldn't know what's high risk and what small steps they could take (open doors and windows, wear masks, probably turn off the overhead fan, try to move the cashier outdoors or to the entryway). It's also not as easy for them to suddenly have sneeze guards installed.
In some instances, I see counties and states taking leadership to help businesses be safer, but I'd like to see a lot more. I imagine the disparities are even greater in manufacturing and food processing.
Some big companies like Costco and Trader Joe's are doing a good job. Some big companies are not--I haven't been lately, but I hear that Lowe's is awful. Our small, local nursery nearby is doing a good job. So it's not just a big vs. small company thing.
Once things open up in CA, I'd love to see a study like Cuban's done by the state government, with the results made public. Companies that are risking the health of their employees should be publicly shamed. And people should be able to see which companies are doing a good or bad job. I'd much rather spend my money at a store that is looking after its employees than one that doesn't give a crap about their health. If there was a list of companies not following good practices, I would stop shopping there immediately. We've sworn off Amazon until they start treating their employees better (we were infrequent Amazon users anyway, so no big deal). I wish there was a scorecard so I could know that we're not risking anyone employees' health more than necessary when we do takeout, etc.