Reply To: Winter Vacation & Minyan Problem- your opinion please

aries- I’m sure the caterer has a Rav of his own (everyone should have their own Rav that they rely on).

I don’t have a problem with the caterer trying to stop people from entering the private room, Especially in this situation where the person in question is voluntarilly putting himself in a position where he would have no access to a minyan without this group being in the hotel.

In extenuating circumstances, for example, if this hotel happens to be near a hospital and a man who’s wife is in the hospital finds out about the minyan it would just be decent for the caterer to let him daven there.

How the caterer acts has no bearing at all on his kashrus. He is doing this for a parnossa, not a community service.