Ainsley health officials in LAS Vegas now advising to mask up indoors, including grocery stores, malls and casinos. This as people in LOS Angeles County, must mask up inside even if theyre fully vaccinated. So what does this mean for businesses trying to get back to normalcy? Our next guest has his own restaurant. Opening up in Vegas BAR Rescue host Jon Taffer joins us now, hey Jon, good, to see you Ainsley. This affects you, and so many of your friends. First of all, I cant believe, were still talking about this. Now, almost a year and a half later, theres a whole distressing element to it. Theres a fatigue, obviously upon the industry, thats very powerful. What runs the nation is not forcing restaurants to do it, but I was in Mount Rushmore last

week on vacation and, of course, its a national monument. There are signs when you enter that says if youre not vaccinated mask up. If you are you dont have to, there were a couple of thousand people there. I didnt see one person wearing a mask, so people are not following these recommendations anymore. I think theyve left it behind, but clearly, statistically there were people at Mount Rushmore who werent vaccinated that obviously were ignoring this rule. So the problem, I think, is going to be public response. I think people are over it Ainsley, and is we talked even a year ago that we were concerned? It would take a long time for demand to come back well. Las Vegas is packed theres, a huge pent up demand were seeing it across restaurants across the nation were busy from a revenue standpoint im not sure the public is going to buy into it this time. Ainsley, if I canned add one more, can add one more point back before the election, when this was the quote Trump

vaccine Kamala Harris and a bunch of Democrats played a very active role in discrediting it now that its the Biden vaccine theyre weighing and theyre absorbing the results of what they did when they discredited it early on. My point is this: if we didnt discredit this process from the beginning, the public would probably be far more accepting about it. Weve got a problem: Americas not ready to get vaccinated and it should and Americans arent ready to mask up again so im, not quite sure where this lands, Ainsley Ainsley youre, absolutely right. We feel like we have freedom again. We can actually see peoples mouths when they move and they talk. So do you think these workers, a lot of these workers, might have had covid and they might have been vaccinated? Do you think theyre going to go along with this, and will it hurt the bottom line? Are some people going to say is look im not going to go to the casinos? If theyre going to make me wear a mask im, just not going to spend my

money in these restaurants, I think thats a real reality. We look at gaming, for example, which drives LAS Vegas. The longer you sit, the more you play the more money we make youre not going to sit as long when youre uncomfortable wearing a mask, so it has a profound impact on gaming. It has a profound impact on bars when people stay for longer periods of time, and I agree with you completely. I think the public is over this and theyre having a hard time. Looking back at this point Ainsley, I know no ones throwing away their masks. Mine are clean and in a cabinet in my kitchen, because im just worried were going to have to pull them back out again whats the name of your new.