During the discussion, business owners repeatedly asked DeSantis to allow restaurants to operate with 100% indoor capacity rather than the current 50%.
Jay Johnson, the owner of Bubba’s Roadhouse & Saloon in Cape Coral, was among the representatives who asked DeSantis on Thursday to allow restaurants to operate at full capacity.
“We’d like to ask that you could look at reopening the restaurant to allow us more capacity.
“So I think it should be made permanent I think it was, I think it’s been helpful.
“I think we’re going to be comfortable, you know, moving forward very soon and I think that that’s important,” DeSantis said.