U.S. restaurants will reopen with a different look. China gives clues as to how.

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U.S. restaurants will reopen with a different look. China gives clues as to how.

Dianne de Guzman, Madeline Wells

April 26, 2020Updated: April 26, 2020 4 a.m.

 

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Here in the United States, shelter-in-place is continuing, but many in the hospitality industry are attempting to figure out what new health regulations and laws will be implemented once people are allowed to return to the world of restaurants.

Asia is navigating that new reality already, as shelter-in-place restrictions have been cautiously lifted. Residents are adapting to new rules that are attempting to keep people safe while they are out enjoying a meal.

The photos below show how restaurants are implementing technology to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, how businesses are ensuring diners keep their distance, and what is expected of employees as they serve customers. Whether certain practices will arrive stateside remain to be seen.

 

 

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Temperature checks

Temperature checks have become part of the routine before entering a restaurant. Here, a customer registers as a staff member checks her body temperature at the entrance of a restaurant in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province on March 21, 2020.

 

 

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Temperature checks are also required for employees at restaurants.

Shown: A staff member of a hot-pot restaurant undergoes a temperature check in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Feb. 15, 2020.

 

 

 

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QR codes

Residents in China are using QR codes to gain entry to businesses, such as restaurants; it's all part of a color-based health code system. Users sign up for the health code system and are required to enter personal information and answer a series of questions, such as previous travel, if you've had contact with a COVID-19 patient (suspected or diagnosed) and any symptoms you may be experiencing. You are then issued a red, amber or green color. Those with a red code will have to go into self-quarantine for 14 days; amber requires a quarantine period of seven days; green means you are allowed to move around the cities. Restaurants, based on the color of your health QR code, can either let you enter or turn diners away. To read more about the system, head to CNN.

Shown: A resident who has returned to Beijing scans a QR code to register personal information at a neighborhood committee in Xiaojingchang Hutong in Dongcheng District of Beijing, capital of China, on March 10, 2020.

 

 

 

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Lowered restaurant capacity

Social distancing is still in effect, and restaurants in Hong Kong have taken to capping restaurant capacity at 50 percent. Customers must also be spaced at least 5 feet apart, leading to scenes like this one, where tables are closed off to keep diners apart. Parties of five or more are also not allowed in restaurants in China, Eater reported.

 

 

 

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Customers are seated at a social distance in a restaurant on April 3, 2020. The Hong Kong government has imposed new restrictions in the form of a social-distance law as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus.

[RunRaajaRun123]

Offices with multiple persons within cubicles also follow the same 

some will be given wfh to maintain on alternate days for social distancing and may place small plastic baricade similar to costco cash registers between two workspaces

[Aryaa]

I don’t understand this temp check. 14 days no symptoms but still contagious annaru then what benefit this has. 

[Scada]

next year ending daka e impact food industry meda undochu

[BeautyQueen]

2 minutes ago, Scada said:

next year ending daka e impact food industry meda undochu

2021 varaku e virus prabhavam untundi ani kondaru peddhalu cheppingg 

[Scada]

1 minute ago, BeautyQueen said:

2021 varaku e virus prabhavam untundi ani kondaru peddhalu cheppingg 

wfh kuda antha serious ga avatla.. anni silly mistakes chestunna coding lo 

[Thokkalee]

Next phase lo.. Ekkadiki vellinaa blood test chestaremoo.. 

[BeautyQueen]

5 minutes ago, Scada said:

wfh kuda antha serious ga avatla.. anni silly mistakes chestunna coding lo 

Job lo avi common ye ga ..job pokunda undali ani pray cheyyatam thappa inkem cheyalem 

[BeautyQueen]

7 minutes ago, Thokkalee said:

Next phase lo.. Ekkadiki vellinaa blood test chestaremoo.. 

Whats ur opinion? Edhi nijanga natural Virus ah or leka man-made ??

[Deadp0ol2]

Best way is to invent a rapid virus check test....temp check may not work 14 days varaku incubation period so no symptoms.

[Thokkalee]

9 minutes ago, BeautyQueen said:

Whats ur opinion? Edhi nijanga natural Virus ah or leka man-made ??

Natural virus.. They closed those meat markets in China After earlier breakouts.. they shouldn’t have reopened them.. I doubt anyone in their wildest dreams would intentionally make and spread this virus.. they can easily decode the genomes and find out if it is man made.. 

[Sucker]

Naa love da chesindantha chesi malla word ki adedeo new invention la ila cheyandi ani cheppudu. Chal 10ngeyyandi yevadidi vadu chuskuntadu antunna @China_Kill

[kathanayaka]

okka maatalo cheppalante

going forward ours is kukka batuku everyday everywhere . 

[MagaMaharaju]

Asal restaurant ki pokunda undadam better

missing Biryani though 

[psycopk]

Migata restaurants ela unna Chinese restaurants in usa might have similar fate for couple of months after reopen