The Cook-Out on Emmet Street serves as one of the premier locations that Albemarle students flow into following Friday night football home games. However, students will now find that dining there is a bit more restrictive after those Friday night lights shut off.

According to a Cook-Out manager, rules implemented include an 80 student dine-in limit, law enforcement presence outside, and a shorter table time for customers. Another Cook-Out manager, Roxanne Long, later said that she was forbidden by her “higher-ups” to speak about the procedures in place.

“They would let most people in until it filled up too much, and they’d make people wait outside in a long line,” junior Webster Springston said. “They wouldn’t let you sit down at a table for too long.” 

The new regulations followed a varsity football home game on Friday, Sept. 5 against William Fleming, where groups of students headed to the fast food restaurant to enjoy a good post-game bite. At around 9:40 PM that night, two students from a different high school started fighting, causing police to be called and a crowd of students to be dispersed with the threat of arrest.

It is not clear how long these new policies will last, but it probably won’t go away by Friday night’s varsity football game against WAHS.