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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

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Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options. And outdoor dining, once more of an afterthought or a novelty, has become a more permanent and intentional part of restaurant design.

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Best Practices for Outdoor Dining All Year Long

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Outdoor dining is still top of mind as owners want to keep employees and customers safe and have questions about maintaining outdoor spaces in inclement weather. That's fine for sidewalks but not very conducive to outdoor dining, including keeping tables leveled. Allow employees to take water breaks.

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Keep Your Outdoor Dining Space Compliant for Guest Safety

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As people begin venturing out to eat again after a year of lockdowns and restrictions, 75 percent say they are not comfortable with dining indoors. Ensuring adherence to city and state regulations, keeping parking lots and sidewalks safe and obtaining the necessary city permits are keys to a successful outdoor dining season.

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Streamlining Restaurant Renovations with 3D Modeling and Design Technology

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How Design Technology Improves Space and Guest Experience Every square foot counts when redesigning a fast-casual eatery or a fine dining venue. For customers, 3D design tools allow the creation of warm and interactive dining spaces since restaurant operators can try different seating arrangements.

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Pandemic Aside, Outdoor Dining Has Been a Godsend for Parents With Young Children

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But with outdoor dining, it doesn’t have to be. I had to take what I could get, so to fancy birthday lunch my daughters went, sitting outdoors in designer high chairs at a socially distanced table, coloring with crayons while I enjoyed a glass of wine, then another, and my first meal out since the pandemic began. Getty Images.

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Noma Is an Outdoor Wine and Burger Bar, for Now

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In what feels like a first, Noma follows the trend instead of starting it In what feels like a taste of normalcy in These Difficult Times, Noma has bestowed news the dining public: Starting on May 21, René Redzepi’s award-winning Copenhagen restaurant will reopen to the public as an outdoor wine-and-burger spot — no reservations required.

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As Your Restaurant Rolls with the Punches of COVID-19, Keep These Tips in Sight 

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The normalcy of customers coming in the doors for a night of dining or even a casual lunch feels like a vision of the distant past. As much as complete closures and stay-at-home orders have harmed the restaurant industry, reopening has come with fits and starts, presenting a new litany of obstacles for dining establishments to overcome.