It's Time to Rethink the Future of Restaurants

Remember normal, whatever that was? “The Time Before” is how I think of it; when we didn’t understand how deeply and fully our world would be torn to pieces. Those things we used to do—crowding into a restaurant with friends, hopping a plane for a work trip or vacation, hugging people, or even leaving the house without feeling anxious—feel like a lifetime ago.

What we thought would be a brief pause turned into a complete...