Indoor Dining Will Return to NYC on September 30(To what customers?)

Eater ^ | September 9, 2020 | Ryan Sutton and Tanay Warerkar

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Here are some of the early details on how indoor dining will look:

Restaurants will be able to reopen at 25 percent capacity, which is half of the 50 percent capacity everywhere else in the state except for NYC.

Masks must be worn at all times except when sitting at a table.

Temperature checks will be required for anyone who enters the restaurant.

One member of each dining party will have to leave their information with the restaurant for contact tracers to reach out in the instance that there’s a COVID-19 case.

Restaurants will be required to have enhanced filtration systems installed, though Cuomo did not immediately clarify what this entailed.

Tables will need to be six feet apart.

All restaurants will have to close at midnight.

Every restaurant will be required to post its full capacity outside and provide a phone number to report social distancing violations, either via voice or text.

Cuomo has presently set November 1 as the deadline for New York City to offer indoor dining at half capacity. That will be determined based on health metrics at that time. If infection rates continue to remain low the capacity could be raised before November.

For enforcement, New York will expand the State Liquor Authority and state police task force. The city will “ultimately” contribute 400 additional code enforcement inspectors, according to Cuomo.

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Disgusting...

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It’ll be a haymaker...

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"Nobody goes there anymore, it's always too crowded the Dems turned it into a ghost town."