For many restaurants, outdoor dining has been critical for business this year.
Here’s how restaurants are preparing for winter during COVID-19.
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Restaurant owners were readyand very willingto do everything they could to make diners feel safe.
Jed Simon is the owner of Old Greenwich Social Club, a restaurant located in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Kate Neugold is the co-owner of Foundry Kitchen & Tavern, located in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
People seem to be comfortable eating inside with us, she says.
We have a very large building so we have our table spaced out pretty well.
Indoor and outdoor seating have both equally been popular, Nuegold says.
On beautiful days, people want to sit outside.
But on busy nights, our whole restaurant is full and on a wait, for inside and out.
People feel noticeably safer [eating outside], he says.
We invested in insulating our covered patio section and we will be getting heating lamps, she says.
There are a lot of factors including town approval that will go into that, he says.
Jed Simon is the owner of Old Greenwich Social Club, a restaurant located in Greenwich, Connecticut.
But not all restaurants have the budget to afford to re-outfit their outdoors with heaters or insulation.
Outdoor dining will be coming to an end for Jean-Georges Vongerichtens vegetarian restaurantabcVin New York City as well.
After that, Varriale says the focus will shift to making indoor seating as safe and welcoming as possible.
But he says getting takeout is an even safer way to eat out.
Still, many restaurant owners say they arent giving up.
We have seen so much support during COVID-19, Neugold says.
I hope the worst is behind us but if it isnt, I have hope because of our community.
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