Kosher restaurants fear losing customers over NYC vaccine mandate
September 24, 2021
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last month that beginning Sept. 13, restaurants would have to ask customers for proof that they received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in order for them to dine indoors or else be fined.
As the deadline approached, some kosher restaurants in New York City were still debating the consequences of complying — or not.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” Miriam Lebovitz, the manager of Milk N Honey in Borough Park, Brooklyn, said last week. “I think it’s going to hurt us very bad.”
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