Several Minneapolis restaurants are temporarily closed after employees tested positive for COVID-19.

The restaurants announced on their websites and social media accounts that they are on hiatus from takeout and delivery while employees quarantine and managers make plans to prevent future coronavirus infections.

They are: Revival (Minneapolis), Pizzeria Lola, Brasa (Minneapolis), Rustica Bakery and the three Broders' restaurants (Pasta Bar, Cucina Italiana and Terzo).

"Generally, blanket notifications are not really helpful, since COVID-19 is circulating in the community," said MDH communications officer Doug Schultz, noting that just because a restaurant worker tests positive, patrons are not at a greater risk than any other time they go out into the community.

To date, Minneapolis contact tracers have not connected any COVID-19 cases to restaurant takeout, and the chance of a diner getting infected from a restaurant worker is "very small," said Luisa Pessoa-Brandão, manager for Epidemiology, Research, & Evaluation for the city of Minneapolis.

The state is keeping track of restaurant cases, "and that information becomes part of the myriad of factors that will be used to help us and the governor gauge whether and how to 'turn the dial,'" Schultz said.

Five employees have tested positive since May 23, said co-owner Nick Rancone.

The next day, Rancone and co-owner Thomas Boemer went live on Instagram for an hourlong video to explain that COVID-19 was behind the closure.

(None of the closed restaurants had yet opened their patios.).

The restaurants had already been closed since May 29 due to the unrest in Minneapolis.

Employees routinely move among the three restaurants, something that may change in the future to contain the potential spread of the virus, said co-owner Charlie Broder.

They are also getting advice from local licensing agencies — in these cases, inspectors from the city of Minneapolis, who suggest a 24-hour closure to clean and to allow respiratory droplets to settle if the employee was on site while infectious?

Does the public have a right to know if a restaurant has a COVID-19 case.