Outdoor dining has transitioned into shed dining

Why are people even eating out? Why is eating in a miserable, distanced environment on the sidewalk better than eating at home?

My God, why does anyone bother, especially as it starts to get colder? How is this any better than just getting takeout? Well, I guess it's NYC where some people pay to live in what is literally a retrofitted closet, so I might understand wanting to get out, but still.

Is it actually enclosed? The ones in SF sometimes have tops (hardly a roof) but aren’t otherwise enclosed.

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If there isn't airflow, its not outdoor dining, you might as well be eating inside. You can't have an enclosed space, but places are doing it anyway.

[quote] Why are people even eating out?

Some are probably just hoping they get photographed for a news article so they can brag about it on Facebook.

It's fabulous, It's transformed/improved the look of every city block. Some places are really special. ALso. No tourists in NY. I know it's bad for the economy, but it's been great knowing that the only people in my neighborhood are the ones who live here. ALso. NO Trump supporters.NONE.

Not exactly Chanterelle, is it?

I think this is the best solution, no blocking of sidewalks or streets, safely apart from other diners, and restaurants don't have to worry about dine and dash.

There's a bunch of restaurants where I live that have heated tents - fully enclosed. Some have a bit more structure - like a low plywood or metal wall and then a "tent" on top. Maybe there's a bit of a draft, but I don't get how these things are not "inside" and can avoid inside dining bans.

lmao R9

When it gets colder, they will also close up the open "windows" on those sheds. I've seen a few start to do this in NYC already. As noted by others above, these "outside" areas are now inside enclosures in everything but name.

Just open the indoor dining. This is stupid.

I'd agree with R13. Either ban all indoor dining - traditional or these retrofitted enclosures, or just allow indoor dining with capacity restrictions.

How about just take your food and go home and eat it!

It's the same as indoor dining. Again, Americans are the dumbest cunts on the planet!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

These sheds are actually worse than dining indoors where there are HVAC systems providing adequate ventilation.

I agree they're worse, but in what world do all indoor dining HVAC systems provide adequate ventilation?

Some of the more high end ones have individual tents for each party so that you're only breathing the same air as the people in your "bubble."

This is what we get when we have a government that won't pay people to stay home for a few weeks. Most restaurants already barely make a profit. If they don't do this, they will have to close and we'll only be left with Olive Gardens and Applebee's and fast food chains.

I understand why the restaurants stay open. I don't understand why right now there are people still going to them.

If its enclosed the health officials should shut this shit down. How fucking stupid. The mind boggles.

Great to hear from the experts from flyover. Why don't you worry about your own shitty town. Check out the crown moulding in today's Tasteless friends, UTAH edition.

You;re just upset to lose a parking space that you will never park in. Everytime a parking spot dies, a flyover has to rotate his tires.

NY has never been better, because YOU"RE not here. There I said it.

Sitting in a shed is absurd - and they're all over NYC.

As if they're any safer from a transmission perspective.

r22 = douch cunt cyclist who's under the delusion he impresses people with his little hobby

[quote]No tourists in NY. I know it's bad for the economy, but it's been great knowing that the only people in my neighborhood are the ones who live here.

Why do you even live in NYC if you only want people around from your own neighborhood? You could save a lot of money and get the whole no-tourists experience by moving to Schenectady.

Bin 5 - This bullshit.

Public land shouldn't be used for private profit.

This picture will be in textbooks in 50 years explaining the Mass Hysteria of 2020.

FAIL- I hate bikes too. Get off the sidewalk.

If you can't see how partitioned areas of small groups outside can't provide more ventiation than a packed Manhattan restaurant in a single room, you're beyond stupid.

R26- For the demographics, to be with like minded people, surrounded by hot mens and it's where the man I love asked me to marry him.

Just put up heap filters indoors and call it a day.

People need to stop spitting, breathing and spluttering on each other.

Colin Quinn did a pitch perfect monologue on how the NYC personality came to be. He nails every single ethnicity.

1st joke- The first thing that you have to remember is that everyone who came to NY was miserable where they were. So to start, it's a city of miserable people.

The poster boasting of glad she is there are no tourist in New York just moved here.

Classy.

LA County just cancelled all outdoor dining (which has been OK since May) for three weeks, beginning on Wednesday.