All guests who wanted to sit down for a snack at Cafedu Café today, the staff came near the National Museum if you wish to present the appropriate confirmation. A announcement of the new measure was also displayed in the café. “The regulation applies to consumption on the spot, so we do not have the information right at the door, but only at the entrance to the part intended for sitting,” said the owner of the cafe Adam Pejsar. According to him, the fact that it is unattended at the table, requiring measures, may slightly extend the check-in time. According to Pejsar, during the first two hours of operation, none of the guests had a problem proving the document. So far, according to him, it is difficult to estimate whether the measure will be reflected in traffic. However, according to him, the clients are young people, university students, for whom he does not anticipate complications. On the contrary, I think guests will feel safer now.

Checks also apply to shopping malls

Confirmation of vaccination, illness or test also required service at the Costa Coffee Café in the Quadrio Shopping Center on Národní třída. Customers, including foreigners, proved themselves. Most of the tables in the cafe were full in the morning. The document and the staff of the on-site café requested Starbucks on Jungmann Square. The staff was obviously uncomfortable to confirm confirmation and apologized for it.

In the Myšák café in Vodičková Street, all guests had to confirm themselves at the table with a confirmation. Those who used the Dot application submitted a QR code, which the staff read and checked on their device. If the test was documented, the waitress checked whether it was a PCR or antigen test and made sure that it did not exceed the validity from the collection.

The certificate of infectivity required the guests to also serve the staff at the Sweetbar Café in Liben. The waitress read and checked the QR code when submitting the Dot application. The restaurant had a relaxed atmosphere in the afternoon, but most guests took coffee and desserts with them.

Some places ignore the regulation

However, not all companies in the capital complied with the new government measures. Proof of infectivity of customers was not checked, for example, in the Vinohradský Burger Bar restaurant in the wider center of Prague. No one asked the editor or other incoming customers for proof before lunch. However, when asked, she stated that most customers check. “We check it sometimes, people show it to us, but as new, you don’t think about it that often. We get used to it,” said the waitress.

This spring, during closures, when due to a government order it could only serve food through a dispensing window, the restaurant had a petition for the Open Czech-Chcípl PES movement to be signed. At the time, it asked the government to open restaurants and other businesses. The initiative said today that about 400 restaurants will not comply with the inspection of infectivity of guests.

However, the inconsistent control of customers in the Vinohrady Burger Bar is not related to this protest, but the waiter is not in a position to verify everything. “We placed the petition here, but it didn’t pay off because of the high fines,” he added.

Prove yourself automatically, asks the staff

On the door of the restaurant Dejvická sokolovna there was a warning that the guests had to present a certificate of vaccination or to automatically put the test to the table. “Thank you for helping us, we didn’t invent it and the staff is not thrilled with this duty.” states the leaflet. The staff checked the newsletter on site. But two people had already left the restaurant, according to the service, because they thought he was making fun of them.

A few streets away in a restaurant in Pilsen, some of the guests were asked if they really had the tests, but she hadn’t checked them anymore. He didn’t even ask another customer.

The validity of the tests has changed since today. The PCR test can be used instead of seven days only three days after collection, but the antigen test is valid for 72 hours one day. As of today, people do not have preventive tests covered by public health insurance.