Business Reopen Under New New Safer At Home Order

WAAY 31's Ashley Carter was live at one business in the process of reopening today.

Process of re-opening right now.

I'm here at rocket city arcade where in the last ad lib minutes they officially started letting guests inside the arcade.

The staff here has been worked all day to clean and get ready for this re- opening....and they're thrilled to be back!

Herman pool, rocket city arcade: "entertainment was the last sector to be open, so it's been hard."

Herman pool is the spokesperson and one of the owners of the rocket city arcade.

He told closing for nearly two months cost his business thousands of dollars... herman pool, rocket city arcade: "i'm glad everybodys safe i'm glad things are being done well, but it really hurts a small business owner so a lot of small businesses like me are really struggling right now."

Pool says they made the decision to re-open during a staff meeting early this morning....and employees used the rest of the day to prepare for the re-opening.

They put sticky notes on some machines telling customers not to use them.

It's to keep customers at least six feet apart.

Herman pool, rocket city arcade: "instead of every 30 minutes cleaning let's go to every 15 minutes cleaning and we make sure everythings taken care of that way so we're following all the best recommendations that the governor's given us."

Theresa kennedy, stars and strikes family entertainment center "we're gonna have hand sanitation areas where we'll have sanitation pumps available for them, our team members will also be wearing masks at all times, as well as different plexiglass areas that will be set up around our registers and where our guests interact with our team members on a normal basis."

Theresa kennedy is the general manager for stars and strikes family entertainment center.

Stars and strikes isn't re-opening until next thursday....and kennedy says it's using the extra week to train employees on the new sanitation guidelines.

She told me workers spent the last two months to completely clean and sanitize the facility...getting it ready for re-opening day.

Kennedy said you should expect a clean and safe environment when it re-opens.

Theresa kennedy, stars and strikes family entertainment center "we're definitely going to be welcoming people back to have parties and have fun."

Pool says the guests at his arcade should believe the same...but told me even a successful re-opening won't make up for what's been lost herman pool, rocket city arcade: "this opening would have to be the most successful re- opening in the history of man to make everything ok."

So far i've seen ad lib on people coming in while the hours here are still going to remain the same as before.... as far stars and strikes they will only be open from noon to 10 pm sunday thru thursday and on friday and saturday's from noon to midnight.

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