The Rendezvous has voluntarily closed its eating place, while it will stay open for takeout and shipping and delivery and the delivery kitchen will stay open.

“We believed about doing it final 7 days,” co-proprietor John Vergos reported. “We experienced a meeting with our staff members. With the spikes, it is just really annoying for us, creating positive every person is risk-free. The surroundings is scary right now, and we want our staff to be protected and our clients to be safe.”

“But we hope to reopen shortly, possibly a 7 days, possibly two weeks, it’s possible for a longer period — we’ll see how it goes and when it is suitable, we’ll open up again,” Vergos stated.

The Rendezvous was 1 of the very first dining places to shut in March, a handful of times prior to Mayor Jim Strickland purchased dining rooms closed in Memphis on March 20. It afterwards reopened for takeout, then opened the dining area on June 5.

Here’s the statement issued on social media:

We’ve been considering about this for a while—honestly, due to the fact we reopened. We all achieved previous Wednesday to discuss via it’s possible likely back to just curbside, shipping and supporting our delivery kitchen area. At that time, most, if not all, voted to continue to be open.

Well, this 7 days we’ve decided to close for dine-in.

Very little has definitely altered, apart from that operating in this atmosphere is difficult, stress filled and terrifying. This is not political or any kind of statement – it’s just us staying weary and nervous for our staff members, for our shoppers and for our community.

We will be open up for curbside, shipping and delivery, shipping, and catering. We truly hope you all have an understanding of and will nevertheless aid us by ordering all. Thank you to all who have assistance us so much, and we hope that proceeds.

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