(KFTK) – St Louis bar owner Jared Ater joined Randy Tobler's show this weekend to highlight problems that his business, Wheelhouse, has had dealing with the city and Covid-19 regulations.
"We feel that we were caught off guard, we had been operating within the guidelines, as we saw it," says Wheelhouse Bar co-owner Jared Ater.
He says that he understood from Mayor Lyda Krewson's press conferences, "that it was not business's responsibility to be the mask police, be the social distancing police."
Ater says that a viral video "of people having a good time" resulted in a closure order from the city.
"We've been operating at 75-percent capacity or less and there's plenty of room inside the venue for people to move around and find plenty of space if they so choose to be distant from other people," says Ater.
He says the bar is a 'target' and, "the whole situation from our standpoint just caught us off guard. We were never given due process, with saying 'hey this is what you've done wrong, we need you to correct this.' We wer never given the opportunity to make it right, we were just immediately ordered to close. From our standpoint, that's not right."
See the viral video:
Hey @WheelhouseSTL, we're in the middle of a pandemic. WTF is this? pic.twitter.com/iUsxWRFsrM
— 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙬 𝘼𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 @ 🏠 (@And__Ark) July 26, 2020
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