Hamburgerseria: Employee Has Coronavirus

JOLIET, IL — On Thursday night, representatives of Joliet's Hamburgerseria restaurant on Essington Road announced a temporary shutdown because one of its employees has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus. The sit-down and takeout gourmet hamburger restaurant posted on social media, "we will be closed until all employees have received test results back."

Hamburgerseria, 1015 Essington Road, indicated it summoned Rytech and the company responded Thursday night within an hour to sanitize the entire Essington Road restaurant. "We cannot thank them enough for their timely response and sanitizing services."

The Joliet restaurant wanted its social media followers to know that, "Although we will miss all of your smiling faces, we feel this is the right thing to do to protect our community."

Incidentally, the Double J Sports Bar, in the same business plaza as Hamburgerseria, announced on Thursday morning that one of its employees was diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Double J said the employee has not been at the sports bar this entire week. Double J said it received permission from the Will County Health Department to remain open.