Posted on 10/03/2020 5:55:24 PM PDT by dynachrome
The plastic tents, which take a minute to set up and take down, have become an attraction at Café du Soleil on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, especially as the weather gets colder and wetter in the fall.
“With everything going on in this world, eating in a bubble is about one of the best experiences we can have,” said Valerie Worthy, as she dined with two coworkers. “They have everything safe, clean. Everything is six feet apart. Love it.”
New York is committed to making outdoor dining a permanent option for the thousands of restaurants that have embraced the concept since the coronavirus pandemic struck in the spring, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday.
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Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more ridiculous.
Sorry, it says “The Moops”
I don’t get it - once they turn the table then you’re in a small space that several strangers just left and breathed or coughed in for the previous 90 minutes. It’s not as if they’re disposable.
As romantic as....being in a phone booth by yourself.
Just like a lot of other Corona “safety” measures — it makes things worse. For instance, grocery stores that limit entrances and have one way aisles — they mess up customer flow and create congestion.
This is beyond stupid.
You do realize if there is corona in the air being in a container environment is the worst thing you could do?
I swear urbanites have no common sense at all
I prefer the circle of trust.
The one way aisles make you think you’re losing your mind.
I go down an aisle, a person is facing me, and so I’m doubting myself, scrambling to find the arrow on the floor.
Nope, they weren’t following the arrows, I assume they aren’t big on rules and I continue on, some of them will stare me down- because I’ve gotten too close.
Pffft! It’s one thing to follow the dang store rules but I’m not bowing to random rule benders, unless they’re elderly, or disabled, then, I check myself.
Dining inside the sneeze guard.
BRILLIANT!
I think there’s something wrong with the cone of silence!
Nevermind that, Chief, I think there’s something wrong with the cone of silence!
I can’t wait until mid January with nyc outdoors “dining”. What a pathetic joke brought to you by DIM/LIB/leftist nitwits.
And I believe these are days of lasers in the jungle, lasers in the jungle somewhere.
Staccato signals of constant information.
A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and baby
These are the days of miracle and wonder. This is a long distance call.
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo; the way we look to us.
The way we look to a distant constellation that's dying in the corner of the sky.
These are the days of miracle and wonder and don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry.
- Paul Simon, "Boy In The Bubble" mid-1980s.
Did anyone look at the actual images without running their mouths off about how dumb it is apparently not. These are open on all four sides by openings that are so large as to not even hope to impede airflow. They look perfect for keeping the soft piss rain NYC is prone to get in the fall winter and spring. I spent 6 weeks in NYC in 2019 it seems to ALWAYS be misty and cold from Nov till March. These bubbles also seal up so if you were comfortable with everyone in your dining party you could seal 3 sides up and keep nearby people from breathing and sneezing all over you while dining alfresco then open them up and in literally seconds all the air is released , clean the table with Lysol and it’s clean and safe for the next group. NYC has a serious lack of space for outside dining these look perfect to fill that need.
Find a need and develop a product to fill it it’s the essence of innovation. Now it’s a political debate as to inside dining vs outside but given the current parameters set forth by NYC elected leadership those are the current rules so these fill a need quite ingeniously. I’ll be back in NYC soon and look forward to some of the world’s best pizza inside one of these bubbles.
The $15 minimum wage crowd are owed our thanks—for making robots economical:
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