[WASHINGTON] Their eyes are vacant, their smiles uncanny - but they're dressed to the nines and they don't need a reservation for some of America's finest dining. Read more at The Business Times.
Their eyes are vacant, their smiles uncanny - but they're dressed to the nines and they don't need a reservation for some of America's finest dining.[WASHINGTON] Their eyes are vacant, their smiles uncanny - but they're dressed to the nines and they don't need a reservation for some of America's finest dining.
A Michelin-starred restaurant in the US state of Virginia has found a fun - or creepy, depending on your tastes - way to enforce social distancing when it reopens at the end of May: costumed mannequins seated among the breathing guests. "When we needed to solve the problem of social distancing and reducing our restaurant's occupancy by half, the solution seemed obvious - fill it with interestingly dressed dummies," says chef Patrick O'Connell, owner of The Inn at Little Washington, in an e-mail to AFP.
"This would allow plenty of space between real guests and elicit a few smiles and provide some fun photo ops," he adds. The Inn, which says it is"known for being reverently irreverent" and which also happens to be the only restaurant with three Michelin stars in the Washington, DC area, is scheduled to reopen May 29.
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