The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated Michigan’s hospitality industry. Our hotels and resorts have felt the sting of reduced demand over a sustained period and strict regulations on meeting and convention business.
Our restaurants have experienced unprecedented restrictions on their ability to operate, most notably 85 consecutive days of closed dining rooms earlier this year and reduced capacity ever since. Now, a three-week – and quite possibly much longer – ban on indoor dining is making it exceptionally more difficult for the industry to recover.
If the hospitality industry is to survive the winter, we must be allowed to resume our operations, most immediately through the restoration of indoor dining on December 9.