LAS VEGAS (KTNV) – In Griffs on Decatur Boulevard near Twain Avenue are the remains of a requirement that has now been lifted.
“We’ll probably take them down in a couple of days,” said owner Mark Griffin of COVID-19 safety signage throughout the pool hall and bar.
“We still play it by ear,” he said, “but it’s our customers’ preference.”
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Griffin says he’s invested between $ 10,000 and $ 15,000 in COVID-19 safety and compliance measures – signs, hand sanitizer, temperature gauges, and high-tech air filters – since the pandemic began. Much of it will remain, but he says it is a relief when the state no longer requires masks.
“We’re 11,000 square feet,” he said. “You can tell them and they could turn around and take it off. What are you going to do? Throw them out?”
Enforcing the original policy was a challenge. Griffin said he won’t ask customers to check their vaccination status.
“I can’t go to my clients and say, ‘Let me see your vaccine certificate.’ I’m not the Nazi. I just wouldn’t do it that way. “
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Griffin is among many small business owners who choose to simplify policies without asking for proof of vaccination, but attorney Richard Dreitzer says entrepreneurs could do so legally if they wanted to.
“If you are a private company and you have an obvious legal obligation to protect your customers and employees, and you believe the way to do this is to go beyond what the CDC says and insist on a vaccination certificate, I think that You’re ‘you have the right to do this,’ Dreitzer said.
Griffin said most customers have gotten used to wearing masks, but he expects that habit to be easy to break.
“Come back in a week or two and I don’t think you’ll be wearing a mask anywhere in this town,” he predicted.
