What Is It Going to Take to Be Comfortable in Restaurants Again?

2 Min Read By Le Zhang

After months of quarantine, consumers crave their favorite restaurant fare more than ever. We’re all a bit tired of cooking, and have grown bored with the limited menu of meals that we know how to prepare at home. The desire to eat out is greater than ever, and restaurants are reopening from coast to coast, with curbside pickup and delivery, new opportunistic outdoor dining areas, and other innovative approaches like drive-ins and carhop service. In most states across the U.S., it is legal (or soon will be) to re-open dining rooms with reduced capacity.

Reopening restaurant dining rooms still puts customers and employees at risk, so safety is the first concern, driving a shift in business operations.

Yet the virus continues to spread, spiking in Florida, Texas and other states, just as many restaurants were ramping back up. A Covid-19 vaccine is not yet in sight, so what is it going to take for guests to feel safe dining out at restaurants again?

Reopening restaurant dining rooms…