Restaurants Across U.S. Put Reopening Plans in Place, From Mannequin Diners to Timers for Hand Washing
Restaurants across America are beginning to open up with new protocols and creative solutions that allow customers to dine safely.

Restaurants across America are beginning to open up with new protocols and creative solutions that allow customers to dine safely.

A popular Virginia restaurant is reopening after the coronavirus shutdown, and visitors who come to eat at the Inn at Little Washington will share the space with mid-century mannequin diners seated to implement social distancing.

A Colorado restaurant drew large crowds on Sunday despite a state public health order limiting restaurant services to takeout and delivery during the coronavirus pandemic.

Round the Clock Diner in Pennsylvania’s York County opened its doors for patrons to dine in on Mother’s Day despite Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) orders preventing such action.

Bars and restaurants in Ohio will be permitted to reopen this month in two phases, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced on Thursday.

After weeks of being closed to the public, a restaurant in the Netherlands will start serving diners in enclosed glass greenhouses in order to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

Several Maine businesses said they will defy Democrat Gov. Janet Mills’ executive order closing dine-in restaurants to the public because of the coronavirus and will open as soon as Saturday.

Georgia is taking another step toward normalcy this week as restaurants move to resume dine-in services, abiding by certain restrictions provided by Gov. Brian Kemp (R).

Harris County law enforcement officials backed down as the owner of the Federal American Grill decided to re-open his restaurant on the city’s west side despite orders directing restaurants to be closed except for curbside orders. Multiple law enforcement agencies in Houston said they were not responsible for enforcing the ordinance.

A bar owner in Tybee Island, Georgia, is doing whatever it takes to help her employees make it through the coronavirus pandemic.

GrubHub is facing accusations that it is using a promotional discount to take financial advantage of restaurants at a time when many food establishments are relying heavily on delivery services to stay afloat due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Business review siteYelp has paused a partnership with GoFundMe that automatically set up fundraisers for tens of thousands of small businesses after restaurant and bar owners complained.

Like millions of restaurants around the country, Little Sesame has shut down its two locations in Washington, DC, to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

The Cheesecake Factory told its landlord this week that they will not be able to pay rent on April 1 due to the loss of business caused by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The Cheesecake Factory currently operates 294 locations in 39 states around the country.

A Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attorney’s GoFundMe birthday fundraiser raised more than $25,000 for restaurants that were shut down during the coronavirus crisis.

A property owner in Jonesboro, Arkansas, is giving his restaurant tenants some much needed relief during the Chinese coronavirus outbreak.

Staff members at a restaurant in Houston, Texas, got a much needed surprise from an anonymous patron Monday.

LOS ANGELES, California — Local grocery store shelves sat bare at the end of a weekend of aggressive buying by consumers stocking up for long stays at home during the coronavirus outbreak.

China’s southern port city of Guangzhou banned dining in restaurants, local media reported Wednesday, as a measure to prevent the novel coronavirus epidemic in the country from becoming worse.

Seattle-based startup Picnic recently revealed a pizza-making robot that can produce 300 pies an hour with very little human intervention.

Restaurant franchisee Larry Fox is pushing back against Democrats’ plan for $15 minimum wage, arguing that his employees earn up to $28 per hour.

New York City restaurants, feeling the pinch of trying to make ends meet, are slashing their staff after a state law that took effect at the end of 2018 is mandating restaurants with 11 or more workers to pay a $15 an hour minimum wage.

Some D.C. restaurants, museums, and even banks are offering freebies to furloughed non-essential federal employees during the shutdown.

The South Korean outlet Yonhap reported on Monday that closed North Korean restaurants near the border in China have begun renovations, a sign that they are preparing for sanctions to lift on the country as part of an ongoing dialogue with the United States.

California cannot seem to make up its mind whether or not to ban foie gras — a delicacy that is produced by force-feeding ducks to enlarge their livers — and now some of California’s top chefs are in full revolt against the liberal establishment that is often their clientèle.

Angelica Kitchen, long a staple of the East Village, closed their doors after 40 years of operation in response to the increased cost of labor mandated by the new wage policy.

San Diego’s experimental minimum hourly wage policy is killing job growth, according to a report from The San Diego Union-Tribune. Although California is set to increase the state minimum wage from $10.50 to $15 by 2023, San Diego has already

A Californian fast food restaurant has introduced a robot that flips and cooks burgers, replacing human workers at the grill. https://vimeo.com/206666438 The Telegraph reports that the robot, named Flippy, was developed by Miso Robotics and began its first day on the

Restaurants are rapidly going out of business in the Bay Area, after San Francisco passed a $15 minimum wage law in 2014 and the State of California followed suit in 2016. Yet the media are struggling to make the connection between high minimum wages and restaurant closures.

From WUSA in Virginia comes the story of disabled Navy veteran Heather Diaz, who has been hassled by two restaurants in the past week because of her service dog, Brinkley.

JERUSALEM – Israeli restaurateurs are shocked and angry over revelations that a gang of eastern Jerusalem Palestinians sold them smuggled, unsupervised meat for years. Nine people were arrested on allegations of being part of the gang on Monday morning. They allegedly forged expiry dates, slaughtering dates, and kosher certifications for the meat products.

Anyone old enough to recall the Bush presidency might remember that the media used to be very, very concerned about “burger-flipper jobs,” median wages, and career quality. Bush’s fantastic unemployment rates were supposed to be marred with a big fat asterisk because too much job growth was occurring in low-wage, dead-end service industry jobs.
