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Restaurants Say Socially Distant Dining Rooms Could Wipe Out Business

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Restaurants Say Socially Distant Dining Rooms Could Wipe Out Business
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Some casual-dining chains built up to-go businesses during the crisis and say they can come closer to breaking even with fewer diners, but other owners say their restaurants won’t survive if they can’t fill their seats

Restaurants that built their businesses on keeping seats full are trying to figure out how to run at a fraction of that capacity. Across the U.S., dining rooms are reopening and some customers are returning, industry data shows.

But restaurants say they expect months of sales losses ahead due to capacity constraints imposed to contain the new coronavirus. They are also buying plexiglass walls to separate tables, hiring cleaning staff and turning fewer tables to give booths deeper scrub downs between customers, expenses that...

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