With some states lifting or relaxing stay-at-home orders thismonth, restaurants are reopening to customers hungry for a dine-inexperience.
Alex Smith, owner of Atlas Restaurant Group, re-opened tworestaurants in Texas on May 8 and served more than 1,000 people.Tables were set six feet apart and hand sanitation stations wereoffered throughout the restaurant. Servers donned masks and gloves,and all employees received temperature checks when reporting towork. Smith managed the bar area by placing picture frames on barstools to mandate social distancing, so patrons would sit six feetapart.
"There's tremendous demand out there," Smith said onCBRE's The Weekly Take with SpencerLevy podcast, noting that they had to turn a"few hundred" potential customers away. "Americans are resilientand I think that the restaurants will bounce back faster thaneverybody thinks."
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