Scarborough cafe owner hopes for no further restrictions beyond Plan B
Today MPs will be debating and voting on the measures
The owner of a cafe in Scarborough is hoping for no further restrictions beyond Plan B.
Today MPs will be debating and voting on the measures which are being introduced to stop the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.
Face coverings became compulsory in most public indoor venues last Friday and yesterday people were advised to work from home if possible. If approved, it will also become mandatory to show proof of vaccination to enter nightclubs and settings where large crowds gather.
Jackie Link runs The Clock Cafe in Scarborough and said: "Most businesses now in the same hospitality sector that I'm in are closed now, especially over Christmas and we won't open until January/the end of January. If that happens and if restrictions are still in place when we open next month, it'll affect us greatly because I think everybody has just about had enough.
"When we say to somebody 'please can you put a mask on' at the counter, we're not doing that because we want to, we're doing it because it's legislated that we have to, so we're not being funny in any way. We've had a lot of verbal abuse and we've had cakes thrown back at us and trays shoved back at us.
"I think in general people are getting fed up of it and then we have other people who are sticking to it like a strong regime, and they will tell the person behind 'you're stood too close to me, you're supposed to be two metres.' So I think it's making people I think into not very nice people.
"People are getting very short tempered but it will affect us in the way that only one person can come in to order food and people don't like that, because everybody wants to look at the menu board and it'll just affect us in general with people just not turning out because that's what happens."