NYC restaurants are allowed to resume indoor dining today
Starting today, restaurants in NYC are allowed to reopen for indoor dining at 25 percent capacity, following a two-month ban instated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last December. It’s the second time that the city’s restaurants have been allowed to open dining rooms at limited capacity during the pandemic. Not surprisingly, differing opinions abound on how to handle the latest return to indoor dining. Some owners are grateful for any loosening of operating restrictions and look forward to offering a handful of seats for customers, others are opting to take a wait-and-see approach before reopening their own establishments, and still others are planning not to reopen until COVID-19 vaccinations have been more widely distributed.