In late July, an inspector from the Louisiana Department of Health went to check on a BBQ restaurant near Denham Springs after getting a cluster of public complaints about employees and customers not wearing masks. She noted tables in the restaurant weren’t spaced far enough, and the owner told state agents some employees had medical conditions preventing them from wearing masks, while others wore them electively, according to the agent’s July 27 report. When asked to make the necessary changes, the owner refused, the report says. The state Health Department revoked the restaurant's food permit a day later and ordered it to close. A few days later, a district judge likewise ordered the restaurant to shut down. Still, the restaurant stayed open, serving large lines of customers who walked past a sign on the front door explaining that masks were optional inside. That led to the state filing a lawsuit against Firehouse BBQ, which sits in a strip mall along La. 16 next to a vacant storefront and an insurance office in Watson. Now more than a month has passed and the case, as well as the state’s ability to enforce Louisiana's mask mandate, are at a standstill — bogged down… Read full this story
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