For more than a month, Oregon restaurants and bars have been free to fill their restaurants to full capacity without a mask requirement. But with COVID-19 cases rising around the state, many Portland restaurants and bars are starting to voluntarily re-institute safety protocols to mitigate the potential for spread: Some restaurants are waiting to reopen their indoor dining rooms, while others are keeping mask mandates in place. But a growing number of bars and restaurants in Portland have started checking diners’ vaccination status before walking them to their tables or taking their orders.
This policy has been popular with Portland diners, even before the state lifted its COVID-19
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