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"It's great to be back open and
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like to bring people together to Studio is only accepting regular delivery on May 11 and re-opened we're so happy to see familiar faces to be a little bit longer because we
their dining room at 50% capacity
want to make sure that the safety of
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According to Mercer, the biggest
Although the local McDonald's
okay to not be okay.”
"We're really excited to be open
notified that they would have to
and moving forward," Drysdale
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March 17 with only one day's
declined guest counts. However,
owner Tony Mercer stated that they
Jensen's Lifestyle Clothing is notice. This had a huge impact on have taken many precautions to Mercer hopes that once they re-open
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recently re-opened after two months
ordered a large shipment of food
more customers will come back and
their drive-thru. "Right now we
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on May 14, has also been taking March 17. "All of a sudden we had "We have a plexi-glass barrier that is protect everyone's health and safety.
extensive safety measures, including all this perishable food that we had between the crew and the guests "We at McDonald's have really tried
cleaning and sanitizing, to protect to get rid of, so we made a huge driving up, and they are to take it a step above to make sure
Local journalism matters, both their employees and customers. donation to the Edson Food Bank continuously sanitizing portions of that the health and wellbeing is of
and all the staff came in and took
Owner Brenden Gemmill added,
the utmost importance," he said. "As
the keypad as well. We have also
now more than ever "We have a plexi-glass guard up on what else was left over," said Byer. entertained what we call 'pinpad we open dine-in and takeout, I think
Although the restaurant's re-
both tills, hand sanitizer when you
people that come into the restaurant
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open as much as possible so people
according to Byer, he stated that this
"These are unprecedented times,
crew."
don't have to touch it. Also, when
gave employees the chance to "get
and with that comes a little bit of a
McDonald's dining room closed
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Local journalism is a costly venture, particularly in this difficult time.
after people have touched it."
"The staff have had to adapt to a
back to normal as quickly as
room for takeout in early June.
According to Gemmill, although
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