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- Restaurants in Michigan can put all of their indoor and outdoor seating back in use starting Tuesday, or nine days earlier than the state had projected, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday. In addition, customers and employees will no longer be required to wear face masks, regardless of their vaccination status, the governor said.
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Jun 17, 2021 · The current order, which allows restaurants and bars to operate at 50 percent capacity, will expire at the end of the day on Monday, June 21, instead of on July 1 as previously planned. The...
- First Shutdown
- Restaurants Reopen in Northern Michigan
- In-Person Dining Resumes Statewide
- Bars Banned from Indoor Services
- ‘Pause’ Shuts Down Indoor Dining Again
- Most Recent Reopening
Michigan restaurants were first shut down March 16, 2020, as the state confirmed its 50th case of COVID-19. Whitmer had originally banned gatherings of 250 or more peoplethree days prior, but state officials said some bars and restaurants weren’t following that order. Restaurants were still allowed to offer take-out and delivery orders, but no cust...
As part of Whitmer’s reopening plan, the Upper Peninsula and Traverse City Regions of the state met certain thresholds in late May that allowed restaurants to resume in-person dining. On May 22, restaurants in those two regions were allowed to reopen at 50% capacity, as long as servers wore masks and customers kept six feet of distance between them...
As COVID-19 numbers trended downward across the state, Whitmer lifted the stay-at-home order early, allowing restaurants and bars to reopen June 8. Restaurants in the Lower Peninsula faced the same restrictions as those in Northern Michigan. Relieved business owners scrambled to get back to some semblance of normalafter months of grappling with fin...
As Michigan’s COVID-19 cases began to spike late in June and into July, Whitmer shut them downin every region outside of the Upper Peninsula and the Traverse City Region. It was Michigan’s first step backward in the reopening process, but it certainly wouldn’t be its last. As a silver lining, Michigan bars and restaurants were given clearance to de...
The second restaurant shutdown went into effect Nov. 18, after Michigan’s case rate reached by far its highest point of the pandemic. More than 9,000 new cases were reported on multiple days, so MDHHS stepped in to issue a “pause”on certain segments of the economy. Like the stay-at-home order, this pause allowed customers to order carry-out or deli...
Gordon and Whitmer announced Jan. 22 that restaurants would be allowed to resume indoor dining, albeit with more strict rules in place. Restaurants and bars will be allowed to reopen at 25% capacity, with up to 100 people total. Tables must be six feet apart, with no more than six people per table. Outdoor tents with four sides are permitted under ...
- Derick Hutchinson
Coronavirus restrictions have been lifted for restaurants in the Lower Peninsula, but only about 50 percent of them were prepared to reopen Monday, said Justin Winslow, CEO of the Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association.
Jan 28, 2021 · Michigan restaurateurs had hoped they could reopen at 50-percent capacity, which is what was allowed by the Whitmer administration when restaurants reopened statewide in June after the initial statewide shutdown. Instead, they’ll take the lower capacity limit and hope for an increase soon.
- Paula Gardner
Jan 13, 2021 · LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday she hopes to let restaurants reopen for indoor dining on Feb. 1, as her health department extended a two-month ban by an additional two weeks while letting non-contact sports resume this weekend.
Jan 20, 2021 · Michigan officials say bars and restaurants can resume indoor dining on Feb. 1, ending nearly two months of a “pause” that forced thousands out of work and threatened to permanently shutter thousands of businesses.
