In an effort to enforce social-distancing guidelines, restaurants around the world are getting creative about how to set the mood in half-empty dining rooms and how to let patrons know where to sit
that she ordered blow-up dolls from Amazon — “the G-rated kind” — and placed them at every other table to let human customers feel like the place wasn’t so empty.
Melehes also installed a hand sanitizer dispenser, started using disposable menus, and is doing temperature checks of employees and patrons. “We can’t afford a shutdown,” she said.Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images These days, life-sized mannequins are seated at the famous Cafe Central coffeehouse in the Innere Stadt, Vienna, Austria. Since Austria reopened all cafes and restaurants on May 15, several Viennese bars and cafes are strategically placing mannequins in their establishments to help customers maintain space and maintain strict social-distancing laws.In Germany, restaurants must keep diners at a social distance of 1.5 meters apart.
In the picturesque city of Schwerin, in northeastern Germany, the owner of the Cafe Rothe gave patrons hats with pool noodles attached, as a playful reminder to stay at a safe distance.At Mediamatic ETEN, a waterfront restaurant and bar in Amsterdam, diners are seated in private mini greenhouses big enough for three. The so-called
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