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Originally Posted by baygo

In recap, I share that on March 1, 2020 we shut down Tavern 27 as planned to take our entire staff to Florida for two weeks in a beach house as a reward for their outstanding and dedicated service to what many have labeled, over a decade, as an outstanding dining experience in the Lakes Region. Our return from that adventure was met by state mandates which inhibited us from execution and delivery of the product we passionately pursued. This led to over 90 consecutive days without as much as a single dollar income to our operation. Upon permit to accommodate outside dinning we opted to utilize our mobile kitchen to support an outdoor bar with a lighter fare until COVID 19 passes. This strategy proved to be successful through the summer months and continues to hold it own as we have put forward an effort to heat the space hopefully adequately enough to continue through the winter.

The lost revenues from the tavern has been somewhat devastating, There has been a wonderful silver lining on this cloud. Our golf course which had struggled to attract play for the past decade, exploded. The large number of people who came to play, and then returned to play, provided light at the end of the tunnel for us. We are very optimistic about the summer season of 2021 in light of that.

Our optimism however is tarnished with a bit of skepticism based on our understanding of the process associated with the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccine. Our understanding is that the vaccine will likely be distributed first to the elderly, second to the front line workers, third to essential workers. Our assumption is fourth in line will be workers within the restaurant and hospitality industry. We are incline to take a “wait and see” approach in regards to the safety, privacy, and long term affects of the vaccine. We understand that this approach may jeopardize our ability to renew licensing as it is likely that license renewal will be contingent upon acceptance of the vaccine. It stresses us a great deal to have to make a choice between the operations of our business or the safety of our health.

I know that many are thinking that a gift card purchase from us would help and put a smile on the face of whom ever you you intend to give the card to, however in light of our understanding of the challenges put in front of us we will not be selling gift cards to the tavern during this holiday season because we know that smile would turn into a frown if we were unable to honor the card. We donÂ’t like frowns. We optimistically believe that we will be able to continue golf course operations in the spring and therefore will sell gift cards for golf. If our reaction to the current situation turns out to be an overreaction, we will gladly honor golf gift cards in the tavern should the recipient desire.

Cheers to all, and let’s always give consideration to others as we are trying to protect ourself.

Thank you for the information and update we wish you the best of luck!!

Question: Are you saying to renew your liquor license the state my require your patrons to have taken the vaccine or your workers must be vaccinated? Or both ?

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