How Restaurants Can Respond to New COVID-Ventilation Standards

4 Min Read By Danny Miller

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued new guidelines for businesses covering a wide range of actions for creating a safe environment for workers and the public as businesses reopen.  Among them are recommendations for how best to reconfigure HVAC systems to provide enhanced ventilation to assist in mitigating the transmission of COVID-19 and other contagions.  

Restaurant owners may be thinking “With everything else we are doing to get our restaurants reopened, now we have to deal with ventilation?”  The short answer is - it depends.  

Restaurant owners may be thinking “With everything else we are doing to get our restaurants reopened, now we have to deal with ventilation?”  The short answer is - it depends.  

The CDC guidelines are only recommendations.  Restaurant owners could choose to ignore the guidelines completely or push them to the back burner to deal with later.   However, the role…