Subj : Resend cell service To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Mon Jun 29 2020 11:10:00 Hi Nancy! BM>> Pretty much the same here: no dining room meals but could eat outside, BM>> with social distancing. Signage stating curbside, delivery, and the BM>> like had popped up up to remind people of that option; lots did free BM>> delivery as an additional incentive. NB>> As of just over a week ago, restaurants here have been allowed to NB>> have eat-in, with reduced capacity to allow social distancing... BM> Update: Restaurants in Iowa are being allowed 50% capacity for dine-in BM> and starting this Friday Illinois at 25%. NB> I don't think that percentage of capacity has been stated here, NB> just that social distancing has to be maintained between the NB> tables... and I heard that some places were limiting the size of NB> parties to six... Both Iowa and Illinois are limiting by percentage of original capacity. I'm not paying close enough attention to know why the numbers were selected -- I'm not going to change them anyway. 50% seems to make sense with restaurant seating: the every-other table, but pretty sure some places like bars are at 25%. NB>> We were all set today to go back to our favorite Korean place, turns NB>> out the newly arriving OPEN signs are only for takeout (online or NB>> mobile orders only), and they weren't at all open when we pulled into NB>> the lot... So we went driving around the area, to check on our other NB>> favorite spots... and mostly found the same thing elsewhere, too... NB>> As it was about noon, it was way too early to go to Taste of Japan NB>> (opening at 3) although they are open for eat-in now... We ended up NB>> at Abyssinia (Ethiopian)... they were courageous enough to be NB>> actually open... ;) BM> I need to know world history better: missed your set-up for a response BM> of "if us Ethiopians made it through we can BM> make it through this!" NB> No joke needed, though... :) We asked how/what they'd done NB> during the shutdown... She said that they'd closed entirely for a NB> couple of months, to protect their extended family from the NB> threat of the virus, but then opened up for takeout about a month NB> before the go-ahead for opening for eat-in was given... We NB> thanked her for being ok with opening for eat-in... :) Always nice to be nice. :) To me makes sense to protect ones self and family; fortunately financial resources to do so. BM> As for around here, it seems the restaurants have been fairly careful BM> about not putting on their "Open" signage without a largish sign (some BM> are handmade) to state take-out, etc., only. Not trying to say your BM> sites were sloppy, just maybe the local restaurant associates, chamber BM> of commerce, etc., emphasized things a hare differently. NB> During the shutdown, a lot of places initially just closed, but NB> then reopened for curbside and/or takeout when it became obvious NB> it wasn't a short-term thing... Those places (especially chain NB> places) tended to have big signs, to get people's attention and NB> pull them in... The smaller places often only had something on NB> the door or in a window, often from the beginning, stating they NB> were open for takeout only... During the shutdown, a place that NB> had their OPEN lights on, obviously could only be doing NB> takeout... It only became less useful when there finally was NB> again the possibility of being able to eat in... In the case of NB> the Korean place, they'd been totally shut down (OPEN lights not NB> on at all) until the point when eat-in became a possibility... so NB> we had hoped that they'd just been waiting for that rather than NB> do takeout... but we'd guessed wrong... and couldn't read the NB> signs in the window when driving by on the busy street... ;0 NB> We'll just have to wait for them to be ok with opening up, I NB> guess... :) Today we ate in at a Vietnamese place that we'd gone NB> a couple of times for takeout... we figured they'd be a good NB> chance, since when we'd done the takeout they'd let us sit at a NB> table inside while waiting for it to be made... and we guessed NB> right... :) That was a good guess! I'm thinking most places with take-out would have a couple of chairs for customers who need to sit for one reason or another -- they're probably hoping those chairs aren't used as probably technically supposed to sanitize when the customer leaves and that's just more to do. As far as signage here, the larger sites were able to afford (or have provided by corporate) bigger and professional signs; have seen a 'bloom' of "we're open for take-out" signs on the grass near them. The smaller individual shops had anything from hand-printed signs at the entry to printed-on-the-home-computer's printer ones. Local news would do remotes and some of the individually made signs looked very nice! ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® ¯ (Humans know what ® ¯ to remove.) ® .... 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