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After the disease control and prevention centers (CDC) announced theloosening mask warrants last week, businesses like grocery stores and catering chains began to mitigate their mask rules for fully vaccinated customers. Fast service giantsStarbucks andChipotle Among the first restaurant chains to remove the requirements of the mask at their locations.

Starbucks has updated its website on the weekend and announced that masks are now optional for fully vaccinated customers in their stores, except in locations where local regulations require mask use. However, chain employees will always be required to wear multiple facial coatings, alias double masks.

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Similarly, said Chipotle stated that vaccinated customers will no longer need to wear masks in the restaurants of the chain.

"We will continue to demand that our employees wear masks," said Laurie Scharow, Chipotle Corporate Business Manager, saidRestaurant Business. "However, the fully vaccinated guests do not need to wear a mask inside the restaurants in Chipotle, unless required by local regulations."

The increasing list of retailers who have followed a conversation includesTarget,Health CVS,Costco,Walmart, andJoe's Trader.

The CDC announcement that fully vaccinated individuals should not wear masks in most domestic and outdoor scenarios take restaurants in a difficult position. Some companies, including the Giant Fast Food McDonald's, plan to keep their mask requirements at the risk of anger of their customers, according toRestaurant Business.

An owner of two Irish pubs in Seattle told the publication: "We simply do not know what to do. It's a little violent. We know that people who are not vaccinated will say they are vaccinated."

As of today, 37.7% of the US population were fully vaccinated, with the oriental coastal states leading to the pack, according toNPR.

For more information on new mask wear mandates, see:

• A list of all major retailers This does not require any more masks.
• An explanation of the new rules of the mask Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the CDC.
• Why some Costco customers are angry on the newly lifted mask rules.
• All free freebies you can get As a client vaccinated in fast food restaurants.

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