Frigg Cafe and Catering Manly West closes after staff member tests positive for Covid
A popular cafe on Brisbane’s bayside has become the latest hospitality venue hit by Covid after a staff member tested positive forcing the owner to close for its biggest day of the year.
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A popular cafe on Brisbane’s bayside has become the latest hospitality venue hit by Covid after a staff member tested positive forcing the owner to close.
Frigg Cafe and Catering owner, Maria Elita, announced in a video on the venue’s Facebook page last night they had shut their Manly West location temporarily after the staff member who tested positive worked at the cafe on Tuesday.
Ms Elita said the staff member had “done everything right” and was notified on Tuesday another venue the worker had visited on Saturday night was a hotspot before immediately isolating and getting tested.
The staff member was working at Frigg until 1pm and is currently being contact traced by the Queensland Government, however the cafe was not yet on the state’s contact tracing list.
Anyone who visited the cafe would be deemed a casual contact except for other staff members of Frogg, who were tested Thursday afternoon and are now in isolation.
“She got tested, her and her friends, and today has received a Covid positive result,” Ms Elita said in the video.
“This means as soon as we found out we shut down Frigg (Manly West), so on Christmas Eve, the biggest day of the year for us, Frigg Manly will be shut.
“We do everything we can, we’re all double vaccinated, I spoke with her today, she is sick but is very grateful she is double vaccinated, so she is unwell but is managing.”
Ms Elita said she was not too concerned for staff who visited the cafe on the day because the staff member would have been making coffee rather than serving and “having conversations” with customers.
She also said she had spent hours calling the venue’s customers and notifying them their Christmas catering orders would be delivered today.
“Frigg Manly is shut but we did no catering for Christmas on site at Frigg Manly this year,” she said.
“We’ve got both Manly and Ascot and this year we decided to do the catering off-site.
“I have had no contact with that staff member, so the catering will still go ahead but there’s no where to pick it up this year.
“So we came up with the solution that all of Manly will have their Christmas catering delivered.”
Ms Elita said they would be closed for at least five days and would not reopen until every staff member had received negative tests.
She also said Frigg Ascot and Labrador would remain open.
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