Cold weather means more challenges for struggling restaurants in Brooklyn, northern US
U.S. restaurants are moving warily into fall, hoping their slow recovery persists despite the new challenge of chilly weather and a pandemic that’s expected to claim even more lives.
New York opened indoor dining on Wednesday, restricting capacity to 25 percent. San Francisco may do the same as early as this week. Chicago is raising its indoor capacity from 25 percent to 40 percent on Thursday, but says restaurants still can’t seat more than 50 people in one room.
It’s a dose of reality for an industry that was able to stem at least some of its losses by pivoting to outdoor dining this summer, setting up tables and chairs on sidewalks and parking lots and offering some semblance of normalcy.
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