Just gauging everyones opinion on selling disposable face masks to customers who show up for an appointment and don’t have a mask with them. Now I’m only talking about $1 each, just to cover costs.
COVID has been around for long enough now with face mask rules constantly coming and going and even know face masks previously were not required to be worn at my business this time around it is required. Although masks on previous restrictions weren’t needed a lot of customer would show up thinking they needed to wear a mask but did not have one with them. Like COVID didn’t start yesterday.
So do I just give them a mask for no cost or sell them a disposable mask for $1?
Re: Donate to charity option - a small perspex 'donation' box in front of the masks, avoiding any 'authorisation'. problems by not labelling anything other than that, as a sort of 'sorry' box. Put a few $1 and $2 coins to seed it, or throw a few silver ones in there if you'd be happy with that, and see how you go. You should at least get the costs of the mask back with the only potential friction point being ' you need a mask' and the presence of one easing the situation, or you could tip the whole lot in a [say] Guide dog collection box for a warm glow while still getting the point across/providing customers with a back-up option.
If, OTOH, you've a barrage of 'sovereign citizens' coming through, then they do what they like, when they like, because they're adults, right!