Yurts, Igloos and Pop-up Domes: How Safe Is 'Outside' Restaurant Dining This Winter?
Yurts, Igloos and Pop-up Domes: How Safe Is ‘Outside’ Restaurant Dining This Winter? “It’s going to be a hard and tough winter.” January 21, 2021 With the arrival of winter and the U.S. coronavirus outbreak in full swing, the restaurant industry — looking at losses of $235 billion in 2020 — is clinging to techniques for sustaining outdoor dining even through the cold and vagaries of a U.S. winter. Yurts, greenhouses, igloos, tents and all kinds of partly open outdoor structures have popped up at restaurants around the country. Owners have turned to these as a lifeline to help f...