As many Arizona eating places put together to open again up for dine-in companies Monday, one restaurant crew within the valley plans to serve up some additional safety with assist from a robotic.

“What they name it’s a shock and defend,” says Bob Schulken, who runs the Phoenix and Scottsdale areas of Cien Agaves, alongside along with his associate Roque Jimenez.

The shock is the UV mild, blasting each floor to kill off germs and the defend is a heavy-duty spray designed to destroy any micro organism that lands on it.

The expertise comes from Wisconsin-based OMNI Solutions. The expertise is often utilized in hospitals, like Mayo Clinic, and Cien Agaves is the primary restaurant to attempt it out in Arizona, CEO Andrew Rupnow stated.

“They’re taking hospital grade disinfection and bringing it to the restaurant degree to verify all their company are protected,” Rupnow stated.

Rupnow says the shock and shield method ought to final 90 days.  The crew at Cien Agaves says they’re going to reapply the expertise for so long as they should, however that is not all they’re doing to maintain clients secure.

Forward of reopening dine-in, they’ve put up partitions, spaced out tables, and are even retraining workers on utilizing masks and gloves.  Plus, you do not even have to the touch a menu – you may scan it to your telephone utilizing a QR code.

“We’ve all the time believed in defending the general public,” Schulken says.  “We believed in it earlier than this entire factor and we imagine in it now.”

The pandemic hasn’t been straightforward on them.  Jimenez and Schulken say they shut down their areas for a number of weeks earlier than opening up for take-out late April.  They missed out on all of the spring coaching visitors, which is often considered one of their busiest instances through the 12 months.

“That was most likely the toughest factor of this entire virus hitting us,” Jimenez tells. “Having to put off our total workers, together with ourselves.”

However, with all these additional measures in place, they really feel the time is true to start out filling their tables which were empty for greater than two months.

“It will really feel nice,” Schulken says.

“It’s going to really feel superior,” provides Jimenez.