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On May 29, over a rainy Memorial Day weekend, Massachusetts lifted nearly all remaining COVID-19 restrictions, allowing restaurants to fully reopen with no capacity limits and other COVID-19 mandates. Cue the celebrations. At The Greatest Bar, a couple hundred people RSVP’d to a dance party. At Encore Boston Harbor, a casino floor filled with visitors counted down to a new restrictions-free day. Restaurant patios may have closed due to weather, but inside some dining rooms, customers reveled in the absence of socially distanced tables and time limits.  Erin Barnicle, general manager of Tem...

On the evening of March 15, 2020, Gov. Charlie Baker announced that bars and restaurants would be required to suspend indoor dining for three weeks, starting March 17.  “With respect to restaurants, I’m ordering that any restaurant, bar, or establishment that offers food or drink shall not permit on-premises consumption,” the governor said. “These establishments may continue to offer food for takeout and for delivery.” One year later, we now know that those three weeks turned into more than three months, and that, even after restaurants were allowed to reopen their dining rooms, of...