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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 Tempo in Waltham, said that guests at her restaurant were “elated to be out and getting back to ‘normal’.”
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, restaurant owners have made the hard decision to either close their business or remain open and hope that takeout and indoor dining get them through the colder months.
But in late fall, a third option emerged: hibernating, which entails temporarily closing a restaurant with the hope of reopening when the weather is warmer or the world is safer.
Emory “Andy” Kilgore, whose downtown restaurant, The Emory, is closed but hopes to reopen in the spring, told Boston.com in October that he didn’t have a choice.
“Our business is probably 70 percent tourism, Financial District [workers and residents], and State House [employees],” he said. “None of that exists right now. Our sales were