Jonny5
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Here's what dining in Toronto will look like once restaurants are allowed to reopen
Friday, June 5, 2020
Here's what dining in Toronto will look like once restaurants are allowed to reopen
The City of Toronto has released guidelines for restaurants that provide the clearest picture so far of how dining will look once the province allows establishments to reopen for dine-in service.toronto.ctvnews.ca
Too many regulations to bother with. Most won't even open. Arrows instructing you how to walk around? I can't wait for the social media outrage at a restaurant that has customers walking directionally in the wrong 'lane'.
"Operators can require customers to wear masks, except when eating." ?
Perhaps the chains can manage this. I guess people who want to go to Swiss Chalet or Jack Astor's really badly can do so, but I don't see any independent restaurant pulling this off. They will also get killed by reservation no-shows. This has already been a thing in the US markets that have re-opened where small restaurants have to operate on a reservation basis, and one no-show table can kill off 5-10% of their revenue for the day because they can only seat six or seven tables with two sittings a night, and there won't be any walk-in customers waiting as replacements when you advertise "reservations only". Perhaps some restaurants will make a go of it only booking tables for two. They won't want groups larger than that as managing them to the rules becomes impossible.
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