Chef Mike Lata, co-owner of Charleston restaurants FIG and The Ordinary, is weighing how to reopen his businesses safely.
States across the country are allowing restaurant dining rooms to reopen at limited capacity, leaving operators with difficult decisions on how to protect employees and customers.
Lata co-founded FIG in 2003 with business partner Adam Nemirow, and the duo opened The Ordinary nine years later. In the 17 years FIG has been in business, the restaurant has won three James Beard awards and is up for its fourth this year, this time for the prestigious outstanding restaurant award.. Now, with South Carolina restaurants allowed to reopen their dining rooms at half capacity, Lata plans to reopen FIG and The Ordinary on Memorial Day.
"If we're going to reopen with tight restrictions and protocols and redeveloping all of our systems — it's going to take some time to figure that out — so why don't we start bringing people back for the curbside program?" Lata said.He acknowledged that some of his employees, like dishwashers, prep cooks and hosts, are making more money through unemployment benefits.
Last Friday, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster announced that restaurants in the state could reopen their dining rooms at 50% capacity, starting this past Monday. Restrictions on outdoor seating were lifted earlier in the month.
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