(NBC) – A restaurant in North Myrtle Beach reopened its outdoor seating to customers in defiance of the governor’s executive order. The owner made the decision after a month and a half of being limited to curbside pickup or delivery.
“The last straw is good friends of mine who own businesses telling me through phone calls that, ‘Weldon, I’m not going to be able to re-open. I’m going to lose my business.’ That’s where the last straw came from,” said restaurant owner Weldon Boyd.
Boyd has owned Buoys on the Boulevard for three years. He’d set aside a few month’s worth in savings in case the business came on hard times, but not this hard. “We were told to put all of our people on unemployment,” said Boyd. “Yeah, that’s a joke. Half my people still can’t even get paid from the state. We’ve done everything on our end, but it’s not working.” READ MORE
