Restaurants, businesses react to St. Louis City, County easing capacity restrictions

ST. LOUIS - (KMOX) Overall, response from restaurants and business Monday following St. Louis City and County announcing jointly, capacity restrictions were easing, has been the same, capacity is still dependent on keeping tables six feet apart.

Niche Food Group's Chef Girard Craft tells KMOX St. Louis Talks, for him, not much will change in his restaurants. Craft says "the way this kind of maybe got leaked out a little, to some of the news sources, it became pretty confusing, for everybody, including some of the people I know, they're oh, we're opened back up, I'm like well, not quite."

"The way this kind of maybe got leaked out a little to some of the news sources, it became pretty confusing, for everybody, including some of the people I know, they're oh, we're opened back up, I'm like well not quite," Craft says.

Ballpark Village's Chief Operating Officer Mike LaMartina says safety is a priority.

"Especially at a time you know, baseball being back and weather being nice, but you have to do it the right way," LaMartina says. "We'll begin to make modifications that allow for a greater capacity, but it will be a process."

LaMartina says it will not be an immediate change.

Restaurants that are not large estimate their actual capacities, with the eased restrictions, will be between 40 and 70%.

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