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By Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror
The young host promptly greeted the lunchtime patron to the Sitting Duck Tavern in Oxford. But the customer, a tall man in a black T-shirt with a helicopter logo, didn’t want a table, not without looking first. He scanned the restaurant, then left.
Flat-screen televisions played above a polished copper-topped bar, where no one sat. The main dining room was sparsely furnished, just a half-dozen tables spaced at least six feet apart, a requirement to offer indoor dining in the time of COVID-19.
Whatever the man saw or didn’t see, it passed muster. He returned with a companion and sat down to lunch, a small victory in the eyes of Dave Rutigliano, who owns the place with his two long-time partners, brothers Bill and Mark DaSilva.
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