California cafe charging mask-wearing customers an extra $5

A cafe owner in California is challenging mask-wearing customers by charging them an extra $5 to pay for the “damage they have collectively caused.”

Chris Castleman, owner of the Fiddlehead Cafe in Mendocino, told NBC News the extra charges would be donated to charity.

“I don’t think $5 to charity is too much to ask from mask-wearing customers who claim to care so much about the community they live in,” he said. Masks, he continued, are “ineffective government measures” that have caused “collateral damage.”

Castleman had to shut down his business last June, when lockdown measures in California were much stricter than they are currently, and dining while masked was not an option.

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