Three Raleigh restaurants temporarily close due to COVID-19
Staff at four Raleigh restaurants have been tested for COVID-19 following possible exposure. Three of those restaurants temporarily closed.
Posted — Updated"Our crew is fully vaccinated and tested regularly, but we’re not comfortable operating until a set of negative tests come through for each staff member," owners wrote on social media.
The restaurant remained closed on Saturday after test results were "inconclusive or incomplete."
The Fiction Kitchen requires face masks for staff and for guests while not actively eating or drinking. Since reopening its dining room in late June, the restaurant has also added sanitation measures every 30 minutes including cleaning shared surfaces and common areas.
"We do not do this lightly, especially after closing for our maintenance issues earlier this month," owner wrote on Facebook. "We aim to be open again early next week so long as our results return back negative and we have the proper level of safely vetted staff."
The Garner and north Raleigh Big Ed's locations remain open.
"An employee here at Union has tested positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19," owners posted on Instagram.
"We will continue to require masks while visiting Union Special. The staff has worked diligently and respectfully of each other since this pandemic began, and we feel confident as a group that masking and vaccination have helped us get through this with today’s notice being only the second positive case (the first being October 2020)," owners wrote on Sunday.
"The last day this employee worked was on Wednesday, August 25th. This employee was off on Thursday, which is the day their symptoms began," general manager Hunter Correll told WRAL.
"On Friday, this employee was tested and COVID-19 was 'detected' from results on Saturday morning. Although this employee does not feel as though they exposed themselves to other employees, we asked the employees who worked near this person to go get tested," Correll said. "All had negative test results. This employee will be quarantined and not at work until enough time has passed and they have received a negative test result."
Correll said each employee must answer three screening questions and have their temperature taken upon arriving at work. Masks are also required for staff members.
Correll said the restaurant is disinfected daily and weekly with electrostatic misting.
The restaurant remains open.
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