New York: Mixed reactions as restaurants reopen
February 27, 2021 By Abiodun Giwa
A photo showing a space lost by owner of a restaurant at East 52nd Street in New York.
Many restaurants and Cafeterias in New York are now open for business after a long and bruising experience with Covid-19 regulations. The scars of their struggle are manifest with signs of closures and inability of many of them to reopen immediately. It is a tide that affects not only restaurant owners but their customers as well for loss of jobs. Some of the restaurant owners who have learned a hard lesson from long closure are working to ensure compliance to regulations to avoid a return of closure, while others seem careless or are oblivious of what carelessness with regulations can cause.
One customer at a restaurant on East 52nd Street in Manhattan said he has missed his favorite restaurant where he is seen visiting after the reopening of restaurants and finds the place sealed with a notice of availability for rent place at the door. It is just one of the examples of many restaurants that have been shut due to the hard economic situation arising from a long time closure due to Covid-19 regulations in new York State.
A visit to Long Island city shows that some of the restaurants have reopened while others are still shut. For example, Fresco Deli-Cafeteria at 33-10 on Queens Boulevard has reopened while the Empire Express is still shut. This is also a picture that is reminiscent of the struggle among restaurants around the city following the opportunity of reopening. Some of the restaurants are reliably struggling to recall their workers who may be comfortable receiving unemployment for the moment.
Service is brisk at the Fresco Deli Cafeteria at the Long Island city. Customers are only allowed for sit-in service after agreeing to a temperature test and filling a form form contact tracing. There are two tables available at the Cafeteria for sit-in service. A man is occupying one of the seats for a breakfast service.
A slew of contractors enter the Cafeteria and one of them is eating a cake with his mask down. The owner of the Deli Cafeteria tells him to put his mask in place. The construction worker insists eating his cake and that the owner of the Cafeteria cannot ask him to put his mask on when there is a man eating breakfast with his mask off. The man eating breakfast intervenes and explains to the contractor that he needs to get his temperature checked and to fill the contact tracing booklet. The construction workers remains obtrusive. But as soon as he finishes eating his cake, he replaces his mask with indignation and sits on the second sit-in table awaiting his colleagues to take their orders.
This type of argument is a common phenomenon where people are expected to follow regulations against their will especially in a public space where authority is weak to compel compliance. A post office is one public space one will expect people to comply with regulations. A lady at a Post Office in Orange, New jersey, was witnessed refused to stand on a spot created to ensure keeping of the six feet distance. When a man on the queue told her of the need to stand on the spot to enable orderly procedure toward the window for service, she said she felt more comfortable better where she stood than standing to keep the six feet distance regulation.
The attitude of the Cafeteria owner at Long island for making customers adhere to regulations of temperature check and filling the form for contact tracing, but the same is not applicable at a restaurant near West 30 Street, where a customer makes an order and goes to the table to eat his food without anyone taking a temperature and asking him to fill a form for contact tracing. Although, a form for contact tracing is seen sitting on a table without any customer aware of the necessity for contact tracing.
The type of photograph showing availability of restaurant/retail space can be seen dotting store fronts in Manhattan for obvious reason from the fallout from the renters who struggle with the Covid-19 amid government's shutter of restaurants for a long period that render many restaurant owners unable to pay their rent. Like their New York counterparts, California restaurant owners have the same experience.
One customer at a restaurant on East 52nd Street in Manhattan said he has missed his favorite restaurant where he is seen visiting after the reopening of restaurants and finds the place sealed with a notice of availability for rent place at the door. It is just one of the examples of many restaurants that have been shut due to the hard economic situation arising from a long time closure due to Covid-19 regulations in new York State.
A visit to Long Island city shows that some of the restaurants have reopened while others are still shut. For example, Fresco Deli-Cafeteria at 33-10 on Queens Boulevard has reopened while the Empire Express is still shut. This is also a picture that is reminiscent of the struggle among restaurants around the city following the opportunity of reopening. Some of the restaurants are reliably struggling to recall their workers who may be comfortable receiving unemployment for the moment.
Service is brisk at the Fresco Deli Cafeteria at the Long Island city. Customers are only allowed for sit-in service after agreeing to a temperature test and filling a form form contact tracing. There are two tables available at the Cafeteria for sit-in service. A man is occupying one of the seats for a breakfast service.
A slew of contractors enter the Cafeteria and one of them is eating a cake with his mask down. The owner of the Deli Cafeteria tells him to put his mask in place. The construction worker insists eating his cake and that the owner of the Cafeteria cannot ask him to put his mask on when there is a man eating breakfast with his mask off. The man eating breakfast intervenes and explains to the contractor that he needs to get his temperature checked and to fill the contact tracing booklet. The construction workers remains obtrusive. But as soon as he finishes eating his cake, he replaces his mask with indignation and sits on the second sit-in table awaiting his colleagues to take their orders.
This type of argument is a common phenomenon where people are expected to follow regulations against their will especially in a public space where authority is weak to compel compliance. A post office is one public space one will expect people to comply with regulations. A lady at a Post Office in Orange, New jersey, was witnessed refused to stand on a spot created to ensure keeping of the six feet distance. When a man on the queue told her of the need to stand on the spot to enable orderly procedure toward the window for service, she said she felt more comfortable better where she stood than standing to keep the six feet distance regulation.
The attitude of the Cafeteria owner at Long island for making customers adhere to regulations of temperature check and filling the form for contact tracing, but the same is not applicable at a restaurant near West 30 Street, where a customer makes an order and goes to the table to eat his food without anyone taking a temperature and asking him to fill a form for contact tracing. Although, a form for contact tracing is seen sitting on a table without any customer aware of the necessity for contact tracing.
The type of photograph showing availability of restaurant/retail space can be seen dotting store fronts in Manhattan for obvious reason from the fallout from the renters who struggle with the Covid-19 amid government's shutter of restaurants for a long period that render many restaurant owners unable to pay their rent. Like their New York counterparts, California restaurant owners have the same experience.
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