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Self-Service Allowed

Supreme Court Upholds DACA

We've learned that the guidance for restaurants and food services has been updated to allow self-service food and beverage areas to open.

The key sections state:

“Self-service food and beverage areas are allowed as long as the COVID-19 plan addresses customer protections such as oversight of the self-service area to ensure social distancing is maintained, hands are being sanitized and customers are strongly encouraged to wear face masks in the self-service area. Best practice would be to prepackage food ahead of time as much as possible."

“Do not allow guests to congregate in checkout and waiting areas, self-service food and beverage areas, outside restrooms or in bars, and maintain a minimum of 6’ of social distancing.”

Hospitality Minnesota has long been supportive of immigration reform, including the continuation of the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. We were glad to hear, today, the news that the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to reject the Administration's intention to end the program without the required formal administrative process. Writing that the Department of Homeland Security's decision to rescind DACA as arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act, this decision provides "Dreamers" with a much-needed lifeline.

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