Polishprince
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The newer restaurants and tight margin ones might be closed for good, leaving neighborhood restaurants with less competition and thus capable of making up for the % of lost customers who will be too cautious to frequent them.
So as everyone knows, you have to make people feel that it's safe while also maintaining take out and delivery for those who can't take the chance, in order to maintain enough consistant customers to stay open and vibrant.
To do this: besides staff in masks and gloves, safe distance seating would require reservations even at places that normally would not have them. Here's the part where you don't lose 3/4 your customers by spreading them out;
Have abnormal sequence of service hours to accomadate the reservations.
Have them spread out with early bird 3pm meals instead of just 4pm ones, have late meals, spreading out hours so customers realize their typical eating hours will have to be a thing of the past in these creative times if they want safe distanced surroundings.
This requires reservation hosts (who should all have fever readers as their tool for employees and customers to enter), to educate the customers on these odd eating hours as well as Governors and administration educating people on changing their habits until we are safe again. Of course these spread out reserved eating hours along with takeout and delivery will help restaurants weather this storm for another few months. The only issue are places with tight kitchens, that will require staff to be verified tested.
Most people would rather eat at home than eat at a time they aren't accustomed to, be it in the afternoon or late at night.
As far sitting in a hooters with a hood on my head being served by staff who are wearing masks and gloves, I again don't see the point, unless they are going to reduce their prices enough to compete with pizza delivery or cooking your own. Its not hard to stick something in the micro fucking wave.
Thanks for your ideas, but IMHO, this all will pass soon enough. Most joints will just padlock their doors and hope their money can keep them.