Without a menu and with partitions: how New York restaurants will work after a pandemic

Frames for measuring inlet temperature, protective transparent barriers between tables, lack of menus and unusual uniform for waiters - what other changes will Big Apple restaurants introduce in their work after opening? You can find answers to these and other interesting questions in the video of the publication. "Voice of America".

New York restaurants, preparing for the opening, staged a "race for sterility." For example, in the fashionable Brooklyn Chop House restaurant in Lower Manhattan, visitors are going to surprise with new standards of cleanliness in the post-pandemic era.

Brooklyn Chop House manager Stratis Morphogen said that visitors will now have to go through frames, a kind of metal detector, to get inside. “Within this framework, the components responsible for metal detection have been replaced by thermal sensors,” he explained. - When you enter a restaurant, you pass through such a frame. If your temperature is higher than normal, the red light comes on. " If this happens, the visitor will have the temperature measured again with thermometers for confirmation.

In addition, ultraviolet lamps will become the decor elements in the institution. They will also be installed in the kitchen.

For greater safety, the dishes in the institution are now wrapped in plastic so that the client does not doubt its cleanliness. “In fact, everything that will be removed from the dishwasher will be immediately wrapped in plastic wrap,” the manager explained, adding that the plates in this form will be served on the tables.

The restaurant manager really likes this idea. In his opinion, she will take root even with the advent of the vaccine against COVID-19.

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Moreover, all service personnel of the restaurant will be required to wear special hats. “Let's be honest: while the waiter is working, the mask may slide down, or the waiter will move it himself, because he wants to explain something. And here - additional protection and safety net, ”- said the manager.

But that is not all. An additional line of defense was established near each table in the restaurant - mobile transparent plexiglass partitions. It is assumed that the presence of such partitions will help customers feel more confident and protected. Such a trend, say restaurateurs, can gain a foothold for a long time.

For especially distrustful customers, the institution has created an opportunity to check the cleanliness of the tables. To do this, you will need to use special strips: you only need to run them over the surface and lower them into a special solution, after which the result will appear. “If the color has changed, then it is quite sterile,” - says the video.

Change affects even the menu. They will be replaced by barcodes that can be read using any smartphone. This saves visitors from having to touch the menu. This principle is now being adopted by many restaurants in New York.

Adjacent to Times Square, western Manhattan is commonly called the "restaurant paradise." There are a huge number of different institutions. Their owners cannot wait for the day when they will be allowed to start receiving visitors. They expect that people are too tired of quarantine and will begin to visit cafes and restaurants en masse.

Like the rest of New York City, Arriba Arriba, a Mexican restaurant in Midtown, tries to stay afloat by preparing food for home delivery. Manager Luis Garcia admitted that it is not easy for them now. After all, before the institution was always filled with visitors, but now they hardly earn 5-6% of their usual income. “This, of course, is difficult, given the lease of premises, bills for electricity, water, gas, insurance and so on,” he said.

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Among the protective equipment used by the Arriba Arriba staff are sanitizers, antiseptic gels, gloves, masks. Also, workers wear special uniforms. It is not known how long it will take to work in this format, perhaps all summer, the manager added.

Previously, establishments were allowed to deliver cocktails to your home, or sell them to take away. Arriba Arriba also delivers such orders frequently. “We receive orders over the Internet. When we deliver food, we attach a copy of the order and a copy of the license to sell alcohol in case cocktails are ordered, ”said Garcia.

Such an innovation, it seems, was pleasant to New Yorkers, judging by the queues at the establishments. But with the end of the epidemic, everything will be as before: you can order and drink a cocktail only inside the institution. However, this can hardly be called a problem. Now New Yorkers are eagerly awaiting the resumption of cafes or restaurants.