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Post by brownrexx on Jun 8, 2020 8:58:24 GMT -5
Restaurants in my area are now permitted to offer outdoor dining as well as take out. No indoor dining is available.
Would you go to, or will you go to restaurants and eat outdoors?
Hubby and I don't feel that outdoor dining is particularly risky but we are not interested in sitting outdoors and getting a nice meal served on disposable dishes with plastic cutlery and dealing with the humidity and the flies that are prevalent in our area.
I liked outdoor dining when we were in Florida and the weather was perfect but we have lots of humidity and it is not so pleasant.
Will you be going back to restaurants in your area?
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Post by september on Jun 8, 2020 10:10:35 GMT -5
We don't eat out very often, but there is one local Mexican restaurant that we like, and will go after they open on the tenth of June, which is when indoor restaurants can open here with distance seating. We got take out from it for my husband's birthday, but it's just not the same after being sealed in foil for a while. They don't have an outdoor area for seating.
I don't mind outdoor seating if I don't have hot sun on me or in my eyes. There is an Italian restaurant in town with a very nice existing outdoor area with vines and lattice work for some privacy from the street, though you can still see passerbys. I would like to eat there again, but we went once, and my husband couldn't find much on their unique menu he wanted to try -- he's not a tomato fan and not impressed with dipping bread in olive oil.
We have had very few covid cases, none hospitalized here, so feel very safe in eating out. Although now being summer, we will be getting more tourists from out of town vacationing here, so cases will likely rise.
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Post by paulf on Jun 8, 2020 10:23:19 GMT -5
Our favorite restaurant will be reopening soon. It does not have an outdoor seating option but then I don't like bugs and humidity while dining. The only outdoor dining I have enjoyed was at our favorite Florida cafe along the beachfront with a nice ocean breeze.
With the extremely small number of covids here I do not live in fear but do take precautions. We talked just yesterday about how much we miss going out to eat.
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Post by spike on Jun 8, 2020 12:32:02 GMT -5
We very rarely eat out and I have never been interested in dining outside unless it is a BBQ in my own back yard.
Plus I am currently being a scary baby. With everything opening up and all the protests and so many people not wearing masks or practicing social distancing, NOPE! Gonna wait a couple of weeks and see if there is another out break before I feel comfy even considering eating out. I also do a great chicken impression.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 8, 2020 13:00:40 GMT -5
I almost never eat out, and never order things like pizza or Chinese for delivery. With all the food in this house, why have someone else make it? And, come summertime, no restaurant will have the same things I get from the garden!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 8, 2020 16:05:47 GMT -5
I only like outdoor dining if the place has a nice natural view to enjoy - like a beach, bay, lake, or mountains - and there is shade and a nice fresh breeze. I never understood the appeal of street-side cafes in cities, either. Why would I want to sit and look out across a parking lot or down a street, have tons of strangers walking on the sidewalk practically within arms-reach, or choke on exhaust fumes (or even worse urban smells) while I eat? But I've been eating inside at restaurants for weeks, since Florida opened them back up. I enjoy going out to eat from time to time, social distancing and hygiene measures are still in place, and the actual death rate for the non-elderly is so low that I don't see the point in living in fear. If I get it and die, you can call me a dummy after I'm gone. I know many of you assess your personal risk differently, and many of you choose to be more cautious than I am.
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Post by paulf on Jun 8, 2020 16:51:23 GMT -5
Ordered lunch to go from our favorite restaurant today and was met by the owner at the door. I asked her when the reopening was going to be. She gestured to the seating area and said today was the soft opening. We have missed visiting El Portal and will be back soon.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jun 8, 2020 17:58:48 GMT -5
I love eating outside in the right places. I have very fond memories of traveling to Disneyland in college and eating almost all of my meals seated outside. But there were no bugs or high humidity like we have here. I wish we didn't have so many bugs and humid days because I hate having to carry a sweater with me in the middle of summer because the air conditioning gets to me.
I still eat outside at times, but not so much here where I live. I like to eat ice cream/custard sitting outside.
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Post by bestofour on Jun 8, 2020 20:12:16 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of eating outdoors in the summer here because of the humidity. The last couple of years many of our local restaurants have opened up the walls so it's almost all outside eating. They have curtains, sort of, and heaters, but the only time we tried it during the winter we almost froze to death. I don't like seating or having to wear my coat when I'm eating. When my daughter lived at St. Simons the majority of the restaurants had 1 or 2 tables inside and the rest was outside eating. A lot of times there was a breeze off the water but the bugs were horrible.
Our restaurants are opened and I'm ok with it.
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 9, 2020 7:12:42 GMT -5
I saw an advertisement for one restaurant's outdoor dining that says that they will have to add $1 per person for the disposable dishes, cutlery and menus and that masks are required at all times when you are not actually sitting at your table. I think that the maximum party size is 6 and all people must be seated at the same time.
Some restaurants have set up those huge white plastic tents over the outdoor tables and since some do not have patios so the tents are set up in the parking lot.
I feel bad for restaurant owners but we do not think that this type of outdoor dining sounds very appealing.
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Post by bestofour on Jun 10, 2020 8:33:13 GMT -5
I'm with you brownrexx,. Unless it is a nice, cool day I'm not eating outside even under a tent. Plus asthma prevents me from being able to breath in a mask. I've never even been able to wear a mask for pollen problems in the garden. I've tried but can only wear it a little while.
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Post by reubent on Jun 14, 2020 11:44:31 GMT -5
The covid is no more threatening than the normal flu that runs it's course every year, and the same treatment i use works just as well. Certain common medicinal herbs will kill the virus, hydrotherapy will deal with any pneumonia it may cause. So that's a nonissue to us. But I eat at restaurants extremely rarely anyway, only on rare occasions when someone invites us to eat with them or something. But if I was out an about and the occasion came to eat at one again, I would, no big deal. When driving truck I'd eat at a truck stop restaurant very occasionally. Mostly just got subway sandwiches.
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Post by paquebot on Jun 14, 2020 12:19:21 GMT -5
I've been to a lot of places where outdoor dining is common. Had to shoo sparrows away in Norway and myna birds in South Africa. And there were the gulls in Seattle that would take fries from my fingers!
Most restaurants around here were not set up for outside dining. In many places special permits were required so nobody was prepared. Our city was one of those. Lucky to even have drive-thru!
Martin
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