LUDINGTON, Mich. — A restaurant in Michigan was forced to temporarily close during one of its busiest weekends because a busboy lied about having COVID-19 to get the day off.
In early July, a friend of a busboy called Timbers Seafood and Steakhouse in Ludington and posed as his father to tell them that his son had the virus. The employee did not actually have COVID-19, but used it as an excuse to have the day off.
Upon receiving the news, the restaurant promptly closed for two days which included cancelling a wedding rehearsal dinner.
“It was heartbreaking. I worried about my staff. I worried about, well now do I have Covid now? It is such a touchy subject,. We had to shut down business for the safety,” David Hritco, general manager at Timbers told WWTV.
After almost three months of being closed, the restaurant had been in the midst of preparing for its second-busiest weekend of the year.
This past Friday and Saturday, Timbers Seafood and Steakhouse in Ludington closed after being told an employee of theirs tested positive for COVID-19.
— 9 & 10 News (@9and10News) July 14, 2020
It all turned out to be a lie. https://t.co/FibV0kbpO7
The employee later confessed to the lie Saturday night, Hritco said.
“He doesn’t know what he did, and I feel terrible for him because this is a young kid that made a mistake. But this is now a police matter,” Hritco told WWTV.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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