Grappling With DC Vaccine Mandate, Capitol Hill Restaurant Owner Pleads for Decency
January 28, 2022 | District of Columbia
Vaccine mandate culture wars rage on, and Noe Landini and his staff are caught in the middle.
Torn between desires to respect all customers, to comply with Washington, D.C.’s vaccine mandate, and to keep his restaurants afloat, he pleads for patience and the understanding that “mandates are not as simple as they seem.”
“We know that if you don’t comply with the mandates that there are penalties, pretty harsh penalties,” he said in a Wednesday interview with The Daily Signal. “Our game plan has always been to comply with the mandates.”
“It’s not a black and white situation,” he emphasized from his Capitol Hill restaurant, Junction Bistro, Bar and Bakery, just steps from Union Station. (Junction is a tenant of The Heritage Foundation, the parent organization of The Daily Signal.) “We train based on what the mayor’s office releases in terms of what the mandate is and how we’re supposed to deal with it and how those mandates are supposed to function.”
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s vaccine mandate went into effect on Jan. 15, mandating that D.C. restaurants, bars, and nightclubs require proof of vaccination and display signs outside noting that they will be requiring vaccine cards from patrons 12 and over…. (Excerpts from the Stream)
