Would you dine with mannequins -in the name of social distancing?
Restaurants are having to cut back on the number of people allowed inside due to social distancing and guidelines from local and state leaders.
One dining establishment uses unique stand-ins for customers to sit next to instead of an empty table.
I didn’t have to go to a national news segment to know it. I mentioned that my beautiful wife and I went to dinner on Friday. The restaurant had removed the tables in the middle of the floor and told us to sit on the same side of the booth so that people sitting in the next booth on the same side would be six feet apart (but we were so early that the other booths were not yet in use).
For the bar seating, though, instead of removing stools, they put mannequins every other seat or so. Which did trigger my uncanny valley response sometimes.
But I was able to mostly focus on the food and the company.
