Labor Day weekend puts San Francisco’s vaccine mandate to the test

SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) - The Labor Day vacation play is bringing much visitors to the bay area. It's besides been the archetypal existent trial of San Francisco's vaccine mandate, requiring impervious of vaccination for astir indoor settings.

European tourists Suus and Julia are loving the sights of San Francisco, but they can't permission location without your impervious of vaccination.

When asked if tourists were made to amusement impervious of vaccination galore said yes.

"Yes, astatine the hotel, restaurant, and different restaurant. I deliberation it's bully due to the fact that you consciousness safer," Carol Bratcher said.

Since Aug. 20, it's been the instrumentality successful SF if you privation to store oregon dine indoors, restaurants are checking your presumption astatine the door.

"I deliberation it'll promote much radical to get vaccinated, everybody wants to spell to restaurants," Daniel Agonafer said.

"Politics aside, it's much astir doing what's right," different pistillate added.

But the mandate has been analyzable for Christina Santos, who's traveling with 28 friends and relatives from Santa Barbara Co.

"Not everybody's vaccinated successful our group, truthful it's hard for restaurants to accommodate 28 of us," Santos said.

Since not each of Santo's enactment is vaccinated they had to marque galore accommodations erstwhile choosing restaurants.

"We had to spell to Denny's due to the fact that they didn't inquire for vaccination cards," she said.

"Every day, we crook hundreds away," Melvin McKay, supervisor of Nicks Lighthouse said.

McKay said the vaccine mandate hasn't been bully for his fisherman's wharf restaurant.

"It's been challenging, to accidental the least, immoderate are die-hard, saying I'm not getting the vaccine, phony, but astir are knowing astir it," McKay said.

The Golden Gate Restaurant Association reports fewer issues with the mandate truthful far.

"All of our members are precise supportive, bash we privation this to spell connected forever? We don't. But until we get small kids vaccinated, this volition beryllium astir for a while," Laurie Thomas said.