‘Social zones’ to expand outdoor bar, restaurant service in Grand Rapids

mlive ^ | 5/26/20 | Brian McVicar

[Libloather]

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Bars and restaurants could expand outdoor seating - once Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s order prohibiting in-person dining is lifted - under a new program created by the city of Grand Rapids to help businesses recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

So-called “social zones” can be established on public property, such as streets, sidewalks and parking lots, throughout the city through a special permit.

The zones are designed to give restaurants space to serve more customers, since their inside dining rooms will likely be required to operate at reduced capacity to ensure social distancing once they’re allowed to reopen.

“If we want our small businesses and bars and restaurants to be successful, we’re going to have to look at how we can create additional seating that makes and gives customers the ability to feel safe and want to come back to eating and drinking,” said Grand Rapids City Commissioner John O’Connor, who co-owns Long Road Distillers.

Social zones could be created between June 1 and Nov. 30.

[Libloather]

You'll need a special permit for a parking lot. This carp is getting old very quickly.

[SkyPilot]

So the "solution" is to move tables onto the hot, asphalt parking lots of restaurants, while you put on your slave mask in order to use the indoor restroom, and the wait staff and cooks struggle in hot kitchens all day long wearing their slave mask as well.

This is not Freedom.

This is Slavery.

[Deplorable American1776]

John O’Conner, why not tell NitWit to F off and open Grand Rapids. Time to tell Governor NitWit that Americans are free...

[Savage Beast]

She's desperate.

Voter fraud is the only way the evil Democrat Party can get elected, and they are up against a President who not only towers over them intellectually and morally, and who consistently dances circles around them, but who also prays every day for guidance, donates his salary to charity (while they demand higher pay), and is on the Side of the Angels (and vice versa).

The Democrats are in the pathetic position they were in 150 years ago when they were trying to defend slavery as the greatest possible good.

[Wuli]

There is zero science on the variations of the limitations, they are all arbitrary bad guesses.