Video shared on social media exhibits a big crowd of younger individuals dancing shut collectively and on high of tables at Charley Victoria’s All Day Après, a restaurant within the resort group close to Kelowna.
Michael Ballingall, senior vice-president at Massive White, stated he turned conscious of the get together shortly after 7 p.m., whereas it was nonetheless underway.
“Your entire administration staff are completely disgusted, appalled, embarrassed,” he instructed CBC Information on Tuesday. “That is the precise reverse of what we must always all be doing”
He stated there was only one safety officer working on the resort on the time, so administration known as the RCMP, who arrived a while after the get together had died down.
Massive White has recognized two staff, up to now, who’re seen within the video, and Balingall stated they might quickly be fired.
“Fairly frankly if any a part of our workers are concerned on this and we will establish them, they will not be working with us by the top of the day,” he stated.
Watch: Giant get together breaks out at restaurant in B.C. resort group
Movies posted to social media present a celebration at Massive White Ski Resort in Kelowna, B.C., on Monday, the identical day new COVID-19 restrictions have been introduced for the province. (Credit score: Castanet) 1:00
The restaurant is run by a personal operator who leases house in a constructing owned by the resort.
“We have not managed to trace him down but,” Ballingall stated of the restaurant operator. “We definitely try to get ahold of him as a result of there’s just a few individuals in our higher administration who need to communicate to him.”
Ballingall stated the get together confirmed a “blatant disregard for our contract” with the restaurant.
Celebration got here after dozens have been laid off
Indoor social gatherings have been banned throughout the province since November. The get together occurred simply hours after B.C. well being officers introduced an finish to indoor eating at eating places and pubs in an try to stem a surge in COVID-19 instances.
Ballingall stated between 60 and 70 individuals who work on the mountain have been laid off on account of that transfer.
“We had anticipated that one thing was going to occur,” he stated.
He alleged that representatives of the restaurant unfold the phrase locally that afternoon that they have been open and providing deep reductions on meals and drinks.
Restaurant administration has but to answer requests for remark, and nobody was answering the cellphone on Tuesday afternoon.
The Massive White group was the location of a big cluster of greater than 230 COVID-19 instances late final yr. Most of the instances have been linked to social gatherings and workers residing in shared houses.
