-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 10-Jul-2020 09:21 <=-
NB>>> I don't think that percentage of capacity has been stated here, just
NB>>> that social distancing has to be maintained between the tables... and
NB>>> I heard that some places were limiting the size of parties to six...
BM>> Both Iowa and Illinois are limiting by percentage of original
BM>> capacity. I'm not paying close enough attention to know why the numbers
BM>> were selected -- I'm not going to change them anyway. 50% seems to
BM>> make sense with restaurant seating: the every-other table, but pretty
BM>> sure some places like bars are at 25%.
NB>> Bars make sense at 25%... eliminate bar seating and milling around,
NB>> and then every-other table, that should reduce it to about 25%... that
NB>> would be the only way to really enforce the distancing...
BM> Right; and the main problems seem to be in the 'milling around'
BM> category: people getting closer than 6'. Add a bit of liquor and the
BM> memory for that tends to fog.
Yup, the alcohol does tend to be an uninhibitor, which isn't so helpful
in this case at all...
NB>>> No joke needed, though... :) We asked how/what they'd done during
NB>>> the shutdown... She said that they'd closed entirely for a couple
NB>>> of months, to protect their extended family from the threat of the
NB>>> virus, but then opened up for takeout about a month before the
NB>>> go-ahead for opening for eat-in was given... We thanked her for
NB>>> being ok with opening for eat-in... :)
BM>> Always nice to be nice. :) To me makes sense to protect ones self
BM>> and family; fortunately financial resources to do so.
NB>> That has been one of our A list restaurants all along, so they
NB>> recognise us when we show up... we were glad that they were surviving
NB>> both health wise and business wise... :)
BM> So you're like extended family. :)
Somewhat.... tends to happen with a lot of places we go regularly.... ;)
NB>>> During the shutdown, a lot of places initially just closed, but then
NB>>> reopened for curbside and/or takeout when it became obvious it wasn't
NB>>> a short-term thing... Those places (especially chain places) tended
NB>>> to have big signs, to get people's attention and pull them in... The
NB>>> smaller places often only had something on the door or in a window,
NB>>> often from the beginning, stating they were open for takeout only...
NB>>> During the shutdown, a place that had their OPEN lights on, obviously
NB>>> could only be doing takeout... It only became less useful when there
NB>>> finally was again the possibility of being able to eat in... In the
NB>>> case of the Korean place, they'd been totally shut down (OPEN lights
NB>>> not on at all) until the point when eat-in became a possibility... so
NB>>> we had hoped that they'd just been waiting for that rather than do
NB>>> takeout... but we'd guessed wrong... and couldn't read the signs in
NB>>> the window when driving by on the busy street... ;0 We'll just have
NB>>> to wait for them to be ok with opening up, I guess... :)
NB>> Update... the Korean place now has a large enough sign in the front
NB>> window to be read from the road, Take-out Only... I'm still hoping
NB>> they open for eat-in soon... :)
BM> Good and yes. Signs are interesting: what looks fine at arms length
BM> may be totally illegible ten feet away (thinking of a customer pulling
BM> up to the curb to read a sign posted to the window - sidewalk
BM> distance). Have noticed the same problem with "For Sale", "Garage
BM> Sale", etc., type signage: writing might be big enough (say 2") but
BM> used a felt tipped pen instead of a wide marker: can't be read from a
BM> distance.
We have an artist friend at church that is slowly learning the
concept... he's made inserts for our front sign, and finally is noticing
that some are more readable than others... ;)
BM>> As far as signage here, the larger sites were able to afford (or have
BM>> provided by corporate) bigger and professional signs; have seen a
BM>> 'bloom' of "we're open for take-out" signs on the grass near them.
BM>> The smaller individual shops had anything from hand-printed signs at
BM>> the entry to printed-on-the-home-computer's printer ones. Local news
BM>> would do remotes and some of the individually made signs looked very
BM>> nice!
NB>> The signage I'm hoping for is the "Yes, we are open for eat-in",
NB>> especially at our favorite still-closed places... ;)
BM> That would be good!
Very much so.... ;)
NB>> ... Have you seen my mind? It wandered again....
BM> I finally put a collar and tag on mine. Stopped the "reward if
BM> returned" as I was going broke!!
Hmmmm.... now that's a thought.... <G>
ttyl neb
... Fate just isn't what it used to be.
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