New York City restaurants reopened indoor dining at 25% capacity on Wednesday, welcoming patrons hungry for food and company in the pandemic with tight safety measures in candle-lit rooms and behind kitchen doors.
At Il Gattopardo, an upscale Southern-Italian restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, owner Gianfranco Sorrentino said extreme health precautions were essential to pull his eatery through one of his toughest times in the business in 30 years.
“Everybody has to wash their hands every 15, 20 minutes. We change the filter of the air conditioning. They are special filters so the circulation of the air is done in a different way.” “It’s fantastic to be with people, to actually have an enjoyable meal with friends and family and acquaintances and fellow workers,” said Reid Rosen, an attorney seated at the table.
“Let’s go out,” he said. “Let’s buy a coffee one day here and one day in another place. Let’s go out to lunch. Let’s buy a T-shirt. Let’s buy hankies. Let’s give this city what it’s all about.”“Financially, it’s been a disaster,” said Sorrentino, who was forced to furlough 155 workers, although he managed to maintain the staff’s health insurance.
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