COVID aside, outdoor dining setups are a godsend for parents with children
. For an industry built on making people feel welcome, the reality is that restaurants can be inhospitable to families.
Briana Volk, co-owner of Portland, Maine’s Hunt and Alpine Club, is a parent of two young children. Volk’s restaurant started seating guests outside in May 2020. Since then, she says she’s noticed a huge shift in how many more families are coming to dine. The physical setup dictates just how family-friendly any given restaurant is. Our local pizza restaurant, still closed to indoor dining, built individual streetside cabanas outfitted with green turf under the table. We toss a blanket down there and call it a picnic for our kids while we drink great wine out of glass stemware without having to pack glass in a picnic basket. City busses whiz mere inches from the protected booths built in the street at my girls’ favorite pasta spot.
Expanded outdoor and street dining setups have already become permanent or near-permanent in some places, like San Francisco, where I live. But in other places, the future of dining outside is less clear, and some restaurants might actually be in trouble because of it. According to the National Restaurant Association, indoor dining slowed atin early fall due to the delta variant.
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