If all goes according to Charlie Baker’s reopening plan, restaurants in Massachusetts will be open for outdoor dining on June 8.
Restaurants that do offer outdoor seating must follow a long list of guidelines to ensure costumer safety including: having tables six feet apart, no more than six diners at a table, requiring all staff and diners to wear masks, having single use menus, and more. Two insiders in the Boston restaurant scene, Christopher Myers, the co-owner of Myers + Chang and Flour Bakery, and Douglass Williams, chef and owner of Mida, told Jim Braude on WGBH News' Greater Boston Tuesday that the situation for many restaurants is not ideal.
Myers said that only being able to offer outdoor seating is “not enough,” to prevent more restaurants from closing.
“If you are not making some inroads with curbside delivery, nobody has enough outdoor dining to survive during all this,” Myers said.
Williams is frustrated by the restrictions but said he is willing to do what must be done to keep his restaurant going while ensuring his staff and customers are safe.
“It is not what we wake up and jump out of bed to do, but that is the reality,” Williams said. “We are going to do our best. We are going to take what we have. If the costumers and our guests are coming in, hopefully we can take them."
