Bars And Restaurants Allowed To Reopen If They Agree To Snitch On Customers

May 15, 2020 in News by RBN Staff

 

Source: Need To Know | Mass Private I and Gateway Pundit

 

 

Restaurants in Washington state must keep a log of each dine-in customer to facilitate contact tracing. The log must be maintained for 30 days and must include each customer’s telephone number and email address, and what time they came in to eat. It is presumed that when an person comes near a tracked Covid carrier, they will be forced into quarantine until they test negative.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the city of New Orleans are reportedly creating a “new normal” by forcing bars and restaurants to collect customers’ names and contact information in order to reopen their businesses for customers who dine inside. In Austin, Texas, restaurants will track customers personal information and note exactly when they ate, where they ate, and which employees served them. In order to reopen, Kansas City, Missouri is demanding that businesses record the names, contact information, and approximate entry/exit time of customers who spend more than 10 minutes in establishments such as a churches, salons and restaurants.

Restaurants and businesses will become de facto government spies, keeping personal information of customers for thirty days.

A federal lawsuit has been filed against Linn County in Missouri to block the order, which authorizes warrantless searches and seizures.

 

If you are like me,  you are looking forward to finally getting out of your house and maybe having a few drinks or a nice dinner at your local bar or restaurant. But going out to your local bar or restaurant once the lockdown ends comes with a steep price.

That’s because three cities, in Louisiana, Texas and Missouri, will only allow non-essential businesses to reopen if they agree to collect customers personal information.

According to NOLA Ready, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the city of New Orleans are creating a “new normal” by forcing bars and restaurants to collect customers personal information.

“We know everyone is eager to reopen. It’s not going back to normal; it’s what we’re calling ‘the new normal.’ It will be the data and not the date that drives not only the decision but the phased approach to reopen the City of New Orleans. Today, we are outlining what those guidelines will be for the City,” said Mayor Latoya Cantrell.

As Forbes.com explains the “new normal” is for bars and restaurants to become government snitches.

“New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced business owners will be required to keep logs of the names and contact information of patrons who enter their establishments once the Big Easy reopens to help with contact tracing—a move that Cantrell called part of the new normal, as New Orleans and Louisiana plan to rollback coronavirus restrictions this month.”

Two different articles in Nola.com reveal how DHS and the city of New Orleans plan to use COVID-19 contact tracing as an excuse to record customers personal information.

An article titled, Customer logs will be kept under ‘new normal’ amid coronavirus in New Orleans” explains DHS’s plans.

“Contact tracing just doesn’t involve government alone,” Cantrell said in the Tuesday conference call. Businesses will proactively track the names and the contact information of patrons “as part of the new normal,” Cantrell said. 

Another Nola.com article titled, “Proposed customer logs raise privacy, logistical concerns” warns that forcing businesses to collect customers private information violates the constitution.

“They’re asking of restaurants, and they’re asking right now and developing guidelines, that are completely impossible to follow and violate constitutional privacy,”  Stephen Perry the head of New Orleans tourism and hospitality sector said.

In Travis County, Texas restaurants will do much more than track customers personal information.  According to an article in The Austin Eater, restaurants will track customers personal information and note exactly when they ate, where they ate, and which employees served them.

“All restaurants allowing dine-in service and all reopened services with allowed occupancy or capacity of 75 or less are encouraged to maintain an activity log of, as reasonably possible, the contact information for all inside or sit-down customers and employees including the dates and times they were present in the business and the location where they sat or were served if a restaurant or reopened service with seating. In the absence of a such a log, “

How does our government justify forcing businesses to keep detailed logs of who their customers are, what time they ate and what they ate?
Read full article here…

Additional source:

ID to Eat But Not to Vote: Washington Restaurants Ordered to Keep Log of All Customers, Including Contact Information