Faith & Flower in downtown Los Angeles reopened its dining room with new coronavirus safety protocols in place, including face masks and shields and landing zone areas.
On Saturday morning, about 90 minutes before the restaurant planned to reopen its doors for the first time since closing in mid-March, owner Stephane Bombet and his staff were busy setting up the special zones by adding an additional table to every two-person table and placing an ornate bar cart next to each larger booth.
“It’s going to be hard,” Bombet said. “You’re not allowed to present things to the table and hover over customers. A landing zone is our idea to make it safer and easier.”Virginia Elwood-Akers of downtown reaches for a glass from the cart being used as a landing zone at Faith & Flower restaurant. General Manager Anthony Dougherty checked the reservation system, which showed a total of 35 covers for brunch; typically the 7,000-square-foot restaurant would have 320 covers. Instead of a half-empty dining room, Bombet chose to keep the table layout mostly intact but seat only half the tables at a time, both inside and on the patio, to maintain social distancing.
for reopening and has restructured almost every aspect of his once small-plates-driven, New American restaurant.Stephane Bombet, owner of Faith & Flower restaurant
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