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U.S. restaurants will reopen with a different look. China gives clues as to how.
Dianne de Guzman, Madeline Wells
April 26, 2020Updated: April 26, 2020 4 a.m.
Here in the United States, shelter-in-place is continuing, but many in the hospitality industry are attempting to figure out what new health regulations and laws will be implemented once people are allowed to return to the world of restaurants.
Asia is navigating that new reality already, as shelter-in-place restrictions have been cautiously lifted. Residents are adapting to new rules that are attempting to keep people safe while they are out enjoying a meal.
The photos below show how restaurants are implementing technology to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, how businesses are ensuring diners keep their distance, and what is expected of employees as they serve customers. Whether certain practices will arrive stateside remain to be seen.
Tang Wenhao/Xinhua via Getty
Temperature checks
Temperature checks have become part of the routine before entering a restaurant. Here, a customer registers as a staff member checks her body temperature at the entrance of a restaurant in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province on March 21, 2020.
(Xinhua/Wang Quanchao via Getty Images)
Temperature checks are also required for employees at restaurants.
Shown: A staff member of a hot-pot restaurant undergoes a temperature check in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Feb. 15, 2020.
Ju Huanzong/Xinhua via Getty
QR codes
Residents in China are using QR codes to gain entry to businesses, such as restaurants; it's all part of a color-based health code system. Users sign up for the health code system and are required to enter personal information and answer a series of questions, such as previous travel, if you've had contact with a COVID-19 patient (suspected or diagnosed) and any symptoms you may be experiencing. You are then issued a red, amber or green color. Those with a red code will have to go into self-quarantine for 14 days; amber requires a quarantine period of seven days; green means you are allowed to move around the cities. Restaurants, based on the color of your health QR code, can either let you enter or turn diners away. To read more about the system, head to CNN.
Shown: A resident who has returned to Beijing scans a QR code to register personal information at a neighborhood committee in Xiaojingchang Hutong in Dongcheng District of Beijing, capital of China, on March 10, 2020.
Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images
Lowered restaurant capacity
Social distancing is still in effect, and restaurants in Hong Kong have taken to capping restaurant capacity at 50 percent. Customers must also be spaced at least 5 feet apart, leading to scenes like this one, where tables are closed off to keep diners apart. Parties of five or more are also not allowed in restaurants in China, Eater reported.
Chan Long Hei/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Customers are seated at a social distance in a restaurant on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in the form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Chan Long Hei/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Customers are seated at a social distance in a restaurant on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in the form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Anthony Kwan/Getty Images
Partitions between seating areas
Partitions are being installed between tables at some restaurants, including this one in Hong Kong, much like the Plexiglass that is being installed in places around the United States such as at checkstands in grocery stores.
Shown: Customers eat in a restaurant with plastic screens to make sure people adhere to social distancing on March 28, 2020 in Hong Kong.
Chan Long Hei/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Plastic barriers enforcing social distancing are seen in a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic on April 3, 2020.
Li Mengxin/Xinhua via Getty
Restaurant employees wearing masks
Employees at restaurants are required to wear masks, including servers like this one. Customers are required to wear masks unless they are eating and drinking, according to the Associated Press.
Shown: A waitress serves separate dishes to customers at a restaurant in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 15, 2020.
Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
A man prepares barbecue in a restaurant in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on April 16, 2020.
Barcroft Media/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
Workers prepare the hot-pot bottom in Guiyang, Guizhou, China, on March 26, 2020.
Chan Long Hei/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Plastic barriers enforcing social distancing are seen in a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Chan Long Hei/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Customers are seated at a social distance in a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Chan Long Hei/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Customers are seated at a social distance in a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in the form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
People eat outdoors next to a restaurant in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on April 16, 2020.
Source : https://www.sfgate.com/food/slideshow/What-would-reopening-restaurants-look-like-in-the-201707.php
U.S. restaurants will reopen with a different look. China gives clues as to how.
Dianne de Guzman, Madeline Wells
April 26, 2020Updated: April 26, 2020 4 a.m.
Here in the United States, shelter-in-place is continuing, but many in the hospitality industry are attempting to figure out what new health regulations and laws will be implemented once people are allowed to return to the world of restaurants.
Asia is navigating that new reality already, as shelter-in-place restrictions have been cautiously lifted. Residents are adapting to new rules that are attempting to keep people safe while they are out enjoying a meal.
The photos below show how restaurants are implementing technology to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, how businesses are ensuring diners keep their distance, and what is expected of employees as they serve customers. Whether certain practices will arrive stateside remain to be seen.
Temperature checks
Temperature checks have become part of the routine before entering a restaurant. Here, a customer registers as a staff member checks her body temperature at the entrance of a restaurant in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province on March 21, 2020.
Temperature checks are also required for employees at restaurants.
Shown: A staff member of a hot-pot restaurant undergoes a temperature check in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Feb. 15, 2020.
QR codes
Residents in China are using QR codes to gain entry to businesses, such as restaurants; it's all part of a color-based health code system. Users sign up for the health code system and are required to enter personal information and answer a series of questions, such as previous travel, if you've had contact with a COVID-19 patient (suspected or diagnosed) and any symptoms you may be experiencing. You are then issued a red, amber or green color. Those with a red code will have to go into self-quarantine for 14 days; amber requires a quarantine period of seven days; green means you are allowed to move around the cities. Restaurants, based on the color of your health QR code, can either let you enter or turn diners away. To read more about the system, head to CNN.
Shown: A resident who has returned to Beijing scans a QR code to register personal information at a neighborhood committee in Xiaojingchang Hutong in Dongcheng District of Beijing, capital of China, on March 10, 2020.
Lowered restaurant capacity
Social distancing is still in effect, and restaurants in Hong Kong have taken to capping restaurant capacity at 50 percent. Customers must also be spaced at least 5 feet apart, leading to scenes like this one, where tables are closed off to keep diners apart. Parties of five or more are also not allowed in restaurants in China, Eater reported.
Customers are seated at a social distance in a restaurant on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in the form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Customers are seated at a social distance in a restaurant on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in the form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Partitions between seating areas
Partitions are being installed between tables at some restaurants, including this one in Hong Kong, much like the Plexiglass that is being installed in places around the United States such as at checkstands in grocery stores.
Shown: Customers eat in a restaurant with plastic screens to make sure people adhere to social distancing on March 28, 2020 in Hong Kong.
Plastic barriers enforcing social distancing are seen in a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic on April 3, 2020.
Restaurant employees wearing masks
Employees at restaurants are required to wear masks, including servers like this one. Customers are required to wear masks unless they are eating and drinking, according to the Associated Press.
Shown: A waitress serves separate dishes to customers at a restaurant in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 15, 2020.
A man prepares barbecue in a restaurant in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on April 16, 2020.
Workers prepare the hot-pot bottom in Guiyang, Guizhou, China, on March 26, 2020.
Plastic barriers enforcing social distancing are seen in a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Customers are seated at a social distance in a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
Customers are seated at a social distance in a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in the form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.
People eat outdoors next to a restaurant in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on April 16, 2020.
Source : https://www.sfgate.com/food/slideshow/What-would-reopening-restaurants-look-like-in-the-201707.php
