Indiana businesses monitor COVID restrictions in neighboring states

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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Businesses successful Indiana are acceptable to marque changes portion Indianapolis continues to spot a important emergence successful COVID-19 hospitalizations.

“Basically close now, we conscionable don’t cognize what’s going to happen. We’re each successful the dark,” said Angela Stergiopoulous, the proprietor of Greek Islands Restaurant.

Businesses are monitoring caller COVID restrictions successful neighboring states portion the state watches lawsuit numbers soar.

“We bash what we bash to support the folks harmless and we conscionable code these things arsenic they travel to us,” said Mike Angel, the proprietor of Square Cat Vinyl, which sells records, java and brew amid unrecorded philharmonic performances.

In Chicago, bars, restaurants and gyms are bracing for a impervious of vaccination request travel Jan. 3.

Angel, who besides owns Snakeroot Botanicals plot center, says to constabulary customers puts a batch of unit connected businesses. While nary mandate has been made successful Indianapolis, Angel says keeping his unit and customers harmless is astatine the apical of his precedence list.

“Most of the euphony venues successful the metropolis person already done that for unrecorded concerts, and we did that, and we haven’t truly talked astir it for immoderate different day-to-day operations. I conjecture we’ll code that if we get to that constituent arsenic a city. Hopefully, we don’t get to that point,” Angel said.

Greek Islands Restaurant’s operators arsenic good arsenic different edifice proprietors accidental the deficiency of workers and a vaccination-card request could marque concern a batch harder.

“Well, for us, I mean, to adhd that to restaurants, benignant of not fair, you know, arsenic acold arsenic the information that we’re going to person to cheque vaccine cards erstwhile we’re already having trouble, you know, taking attraction of our guests,” Stergiopoulous said.

Stergiopoulous says, with ample events happening successful the city, adding yet different obstacle connected businesses would beryllium unfair.

“I’m not successful favour of it due to the fact that it’s not fair. I mean we’re going to bash immoderate is asked of america conscionable similar everybody else, but, successful turn, we besides person to look astatine the large representation and spot that if we’re having each these nationalist events and we’re not societal distancing and past we expect restaurants to mandate and cheque vaccine cards, where’s the fairness successful that?” Stergiopoulous said.