Friday May 15, 2020

The Honorable Dr. Sam Page

County Executive of St. Louis County
41 South Central
Clayton, MO 63105

Dear Dr. Page:

I am writing to you today on behalf of myself and the owners of 30 other small boutique fitness
centers in St. Louis County. We employ hundreds of people in our region who want to get back
to work and have thousands of loyal members who are not only eager to return to our facilities
to improve their physical health, but also to protect their mental health. We ask that you
evaluate the processes and controls we plan to have in place and designate a distinct class of
business which can be managed separately from big box gyms. Instructor-led facilities like ours
allow a very high degree of control over the gym environment. Our instructors have the ability to
directly manage and control the environment in which we operate to ensure proper controls are
in place.

I am the owner of three boutique fitness facilities (Burn Boot Camp O’Fallon, Manchester, and
South County) and we successfully re-opened our O’Fallon location on May 4th. We have
proven to control and sustain a safe environment and we have a local working model of how
boutique fitness can be managed deliberately and safely. The standard operating procedures
(SOPs) we and several of the other owners have adopted are vetted through our national
franchise headquarters and are being deployed nationwide. These SOPs include the following:

1. Contactless entry and exit

2. All members exit the studio after a class before the next class enters the building
3. Mandatory temperatures to be taken upon entry for employees
4. Mandatory hand-washing upon entering the building for employees
5. Strongly encouraging hand-washing for members
6. Ample supply of hand sanitizer throughout the gym
7. Adequate social distancing upon entry
8. Ample supply of face coverings and rubber gloves supplied
9. Hourly disinfection of high-touch surfaces
10. Required deep clean of shared surfaces during shift changes (i.e. computer, mouse,
keyboard, desk, printer etc.)
11. Strict policy adherence and training for all employees
12. Required use of gloves when cleaning equipment
13. Suspension of laundering
14. Suspension of communal kitchen accessories
15. One-time use equipment
16. Personal exercise stations 6-feet apart
17. Attendance limited to 25% of building capacity
 18. Mandatory face covering for employees
19. Face covering strongly encouraged for members
20. Cleaning/sanitizing of equipment between each class with ample drying time
21. Deep cleaning/sanitizing each night
22. Mandatory employee and member usage of CDC Self-Checker before entrance

It is our firm belief that our facilities will be one of the safest environments for St. Louis County
residents, and that boutique fitness facilities deserve the right to be open alongside other
industries. We also believe that your constituents want us open now as evidenced by the
thousands of signatures on our petition which were accumulated in just a few days. Our
communities need the services we provide for well-being. Their physical, emotional and mental
strength is deteriorating every day we are closed. Our goal is to create healthy and happy
individuals; the decision to exclude boutique gyms from Phase 1 has taken this away from
people - your people.

There is nothing more important in the middle of a pandemic than a strong immune system and
good mental health. We are certain that we can do it safely and we respectfully request that you
create a more granular definition of “gyms” and allow our instructor-led facilities to reopen as
soon as possible.

We appreciate your consideration and will be in touch with your office to schedule a day and
time that is convenient for you to discuss.

Best regards,

Ted Theodoropoulos
Owner
ted@burnstlouis.com
704-957-5134

On behalf of:

Burn Boot Camp - Manchester Title Boxing Club - Maplewood

Burn Boot Camp - South County Heath Norton
Ted & Chelsea Theodoropoulos

Faster Fitness Boom Pilates

Marshall Ray Danyal Timmermann
PLNK STL Shred415
Brooke Meek Brad Beracha

Performance Lab STL Cyclebar - Chesterfield

David Lazaroff Dave Batschelett & David Busker

Cyclebar - Creve Coeur Blues City Athletics

Cyclebar - Richmond Heights Stephen Wallace
Paul Schnapp

Blue Ocean Fitness Row House Chesterfield

John Farkas Brad Carr

F45 CrossFit Xtramile

Chelsea & Levi Thomas Corey Lewis

YogaSix - St. Louis - Highlands Orangetheory Fitness - Ladue

YogaSix - Des Peres Orangetheory Fitness - Chesterfield
YogaSix - Creve Coeur Nick Ahlering
Peter Barbaresi & Ben Tucker

Training For Warriors Central CrossFit Eureka

Zach Brace Lydia Sherrer

Row House Sunset Hills OrangeTheory Fitness - Creve Coeur

Greg Wilke OrangeTheory Fitness - Ellisville
Juan Ortega
Parrish Lamb

OrangeTheory Fitness - Concord

OrangeTheory Fitness - Fenton
OrangeTheory Fitness - Oakville
Jerry Guarch