Mio Fratello Italian Steakhouse
December 9 at 8:32 AM · Sharing for all the people I know in the restaurant business!! Written by a restaurant owner. Is it any wonder why we don’t trust our overlords?As I walk into the grocery store with 30 other people at the same time, I think about my restaurant which allows parties of 6 total, and meticulously spaces out reservations by 10 minutes ensuring guests that aren’t from the same party do not arrive at the same time. As I take a cart, that has had just the handle sanitized, I think about my restaurant which invested thousands of dollars (so far) on ink and paper to print disposable menus to ensure no two guests touch the same menu. As I walk over to the produce aisle with 15-20 other people around me, I’m reminded of the strict “no mingling / no walking around the restaurant other than to use the washroom or enter/exit” policy we have in place and the 6ft distance between tables which has cut our capacity in half.As I watch the woman next to me pick up apples with her hand, check them over closely and then put them back on the open pile and repeats this until she finds the perfect apples — the same thing that all other people that day who want an apple will then do and then put those apples into their mouths, I think about the two step sanitation process in place at my restaurant for all cutlery and dishes and glassware in between every single guest, and the sanitation of every surface guests touch (tables, chairs, salt and pepper shakers, etc).As I watch the man in the next aisle over ignore or not notice the directional arrows on the ground, I think about my restaurant and the constant redirecting our staff does of guests – by locking certain doors, blocking areas off and the work my team does to simply not allow guests to walk where they are not supposed to. As I walk down the cereal aisle, I see a person with their mask off so they can talk on the phone, and I’m reminded of my restaurant where our masking policy has lost us so much business as we will not allow guests who do not cover their nose mouth and chin while not sitting at their designated seat as per the by-law in place for our region. As I check out at the cashier, I use my debit card to pay and see the plastic film covering the terminal. It was not sanitized after the person before me used it. I am reminded of the sanitizer used on the debit terminals in between each guest every time at my restaurant.As I stand at a crowded exit trying to leave, I’m reminded of the detailed contact tracing in place at my restaurant that records the name, phone number, table number, arrival and exit time, as well as the server and section the guest sat in that is in place at my restaurant— not one of those pieces of information was taken from any customer here.As I get into my car and watch all these people leave the store, I wonder which person will visit my establishment after contracting covid at this grocery store, and I wonder why on earth my restaurant will be blamed as the source.Restaurants are being targeted as the “source” of Covid infections because we are one of the ONLY industries required to provide contact tracing. Someone with Covid could have gone to Costco, Home Depot, Walmart, the Mall food court, Any grocery store etc yet it’s the restaurant that took their detailed information that will be forced to close and deemed responsible for the infection. You want to blame restaurants for the spread after thousands of dollars investing in equipment, training and stricter policies than ANYWHERE ELSE?! PROVE 
IT #saverestaurantsPlease !!!!! Somebody help me understand!!! Just take a minute today and think about it!! I never said life is fair!! Just that it shouldn’t be this hard !! God bless us alll!!
What are going to do about this? I’ll tell you now : We will do nothing because we are under attack by the left and we fear them. We are a bunch of chicken shit people who
accept this as normal now. We put up with 8 years of the same crap with obama , nothing was done. We are now under rule by the communist party of Hogan and soon Harris , Biden won’t make it through Feb. .
Doesn’t this post sound familiar ? We are now under control of a Marxist and communist leadership. They have influenced by Sorros with cash , after all we are capitalist , aren’t we?
We pay attention to money . They don’t look at the big picture like God fearing men do.
A civil war is the only way to bring us back reality , You may not want to hear it but we must fight with any and weapons we have . If you want to live like the Chinese communist
then lay back and do nothing . I will not let my family be under this control , if I can help it.
I defended this country 1966-1968 in an infantry division , I remember everything and am very capable , that being said , you guys just lay back and absorb the downfall of our nation . Actions speak louder than words!!
I must say something about the masks also , I’ve done a lot of research on how effective the masks are , these next few statements are from well known doctors (heart , family practice , dentist and other doctors . The one I like the most was this ” the virus so small that wearing a mask is like try to stop mosquitos with a chain link fence” , another is
” like throwing sand through chicken wire “. The mask is another bunch of BS .
Have you heard anything about the flue during this flue season ? Did the MSM forget to publish this also ?
How many paychecks have Larry Hogan or Coon Man Northam missed because of the lockdown?
I thought when byeDone was elected this was all going to end?
Quit trying to make ByeDone a thing. It’s not catching on.
Bye done will call for a 100 day mask mandate and it will simply disappear and the media will anoint him God
Had lunch at Mio’s before the lockdown was even on the horizon. Good food and service; nice ambiance.
Wish him and all restaurant operators well.
Read the disclaimer on the mask packaging and you will understand why there’s no reason to wear them aside from a Marxist Governor’s mandate, which by the way is NOT a law punishable by any court. And that piece of paper on the wall called a “license” won’t change the taste of the food or the quality of service when it’s gone.
Now they have copper infused masked , we believe anything , copper for knees , elbows , feet and now masks , what a joke .
Nicely packed in Ropewalk last Thurs/Friday. All one has to do is look at the parking lot.
Just sayin, those who have “it” can do whatever they want with “it”.
That has never ever changed in OC.
I work for a government funded program. Unfortunately, this restauranteur fell victim to being conscientious and trusting that the things he was asked to do and provide had logical scientific reasoning behind it. I feel for him because I deal with this all the time. I have clients provide the lengthy checklist of requested items (many of them very invasive), only to have the government turn around and come up with another list of rules/request/demands longer than the 1st. SOP. It’s a game. The more we comply, the more the restrictions ratchet up.