Suggested temporary restaurant guidelines when it’s time to “open” again.

[RioRico]

@russian_heel

PS: Any restaurant bathroom reports?

Restroom at the empty McFoodery (with long drive-thru line) near Sacramento I necessarily visited the other day had obviously been scrubbed-down just before my arrival. I’ve not inspected facilities at other eateries for some time now. No rush.

[nelliebly]

@UltraVires

How about we leave the minimum/living wage debate for a different day and when deciding the protocol for reopening restaurants, we focus only on things that prevent the spread of disease? Otherwise it never stops.

What if we go down that road and Republicans urge that, say, in order to get people back out to restaurants and so that they are not scared of crime due to so many police being sick, we mandate that any person who is not a convicted felon can carry a handgun for personal protection without the need of a government permit?

It’s real tempting to go down this path and we’ve already started it (red states suspending abortion, blue states closing gun stores) that we should just have those type of debates in the normal course of legislation.

I wasn’t trying to “go down this path.” I was trying to get the OP to clarify why this was proposed instead of assuming there was some unrelated social/political agenda behind it. You obviously prefer to jump to conclusions, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us should.

[Colibri]

@UltraVires

How about we leave the minimum/living wage debate for a different day and when deciding the protocol for reopening restaurants, we focus only on things that prevent the spread of disease? Otherwise it never stops.

What if we go down that road and Republicans urge that, say, in order to get people back out to restaurants and so that they are not scared of crime due to so many police being sick, we mandate that any person who is not a convicted felon can carry a handgun for personal protection without the need of a government permit?

It’s real tempting to go down this path and we’ve already started it (red states suspending abortion, blue states closing gun stores) that we should just have those type of debates in the normal course of legislation.

Moderator Note

So in order not go down the road to minimum wage debate, you start down the road to the gun control debate? :dubious: Let’s not go down any of those paths, and leave debates to Great Debates.

Colibri
Quarantine Zone Moderator

[russian_heel]

@UltraVires

Yeah, if it is like going into a hospital operating room, I’ll just stay home.

And why a mandatory 20% tip now all of a sudden? Why is that a necessary sanitary regulation that stops the spread of Covid-19?

In this and all other instances, I wish people would stop proposing their own personal policy choices into emergency regulations to deal with the virus.

The 20% tip was just an idea I threw out there. IMO restaurant workers are a front line profession and I’d just want to make sure they are taken care of.
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[Marvin_the_Martian]

When restaurants reopen it is safe to assume that a large chunk of the population will still be is significant financial distress. A fixed/minimum service charge would ensure that customers are making their dining out choices based on the true cost of the meal (i.e., including tip) and not passing their financial hardship on to the servers (“I can’t really afford a decent tip, times are tough.”) . Many restaurants pre-shutdown added minimum tips to checks for larger groups in order to counter the tendency for certain diners to decide, “Gee, 18% of this big check seems like a lot of money, 10% should be plenty.”

It would be wonderful is somehow the recovery is the trigger to eliminate the absurd tip-based compensation system altogether…

[SanVito]

@russian_heel

I know the nuclear family thing is hard to prove but I’d prefer to discourage going out with friends because that could possibly spread the disease.
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Are we thinking of different definitions of a nuclear family here? Because in my mind, that’s two parents of opposite sex and their children. Married, naturally.

And that’s a societal judgement I am not prepared for us to be dragged back to. Families - and home set-ups - come in many shapes and sizes.

I’d argue the better version would be ‘people from the same household’ as it currently is for exercising with the ‘stay at home’ order (at least where I am). And where you live is pretty easy to prove if required.

[Omar_Little]

@Monty

OMar Little: Where in South Korea are your friends? As mentioned above, just a few days ago, the mayor of Seoul closed all bars in his city.

They live in Gumi. One of the industrial parts of the Country in the south.