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Restaurants in New York City are allowed to increase their indoor dining capacity to 50%. Locanda Vini e Olii in Brooklyn won't do any indoor dining until every staff member has been fully vaccinated.
NYC Restaurants Balance Safety And Financial Pressure To Reopen But right now, the dining room is a storage closet â mostly for outdoor dining equipment. "We store the empty propane heaters here. And in the front window where it used to be a really romantic table, now it's just filled with plates and glassware," says Michael Schall, one of Locanda Vini e Olii's owners. Restaurants in New York City are now allowed to increase their indoor dining capacity to 50%. That's the highest capacity they've been allowed to operate at since the start of the pandemic â so many restaurant owners,...
NYC Restaurants Balance Safety And Financial Pressure To Reopen By Camille Petersen April 1, 2021 The dining room of Locanda Vini e Olii, an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, is inside a hundred-year-old apothecary. It has dark wood shelves, deep cabinets with glass doors, and a floor made of small, pearly tiles. But right now, the dining room is a storage closet — mostly for outdoor dining equipment. “We store the empty propane heaters here. And in the front window where it used to be a really romantic table, now it’s just filled with plates and glassware,” says Michael Schall, one ...