New York State state has released reopening guidelines for restaurants, and they paint a clearer picture of what we already knew: Restaurants aren’t going to feel normal for a long time
A server in Belgium, wearing a face mask we hope does not come to New York. Photo: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images After three months of mostly dystopian speculation about the future of New York City’s restaurants, the state finally released a few more details about how reopenings will work.
Groups of up to ten people are allowed to eat together, as long as they’re members of the same party, and communal tables, like bars, are okay “if at least six feet can be maintained between parties.” What will it feel like to eat dinner in a socially distanced fortress, and do you want to? The guidelines do not say. In states that have already reopened for dining, though, business has been slow. Crunching sales numbers, Slate’s Jordan Weissman works out that, as of mid-May, reopened restaurants were doing “just over one-third of the dine-in business they were before.” Some of that is because restaurants are operating at limited capacity. But it also suggests that diners aren’t rushing back.
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