The Pandemic Has Forced Restaurants to Navigate a New Style of Service

Dining out in late 2020 might mean sitting at a table hollering-distance away from your closest neighbors, attended by servers in masks and plastic gloves who drop off plates and quickly back away. Or the post-COVID-19 restaurant might resemble a glorified food stall, where patrons and delivery workers parade through empty dining rooms to collect takeout boxes. Perhaps it will be both of these, a business fluid enough to toggle between the two modes as infections flare and...