Actually, Uber Eats is a misnomer. Because I only order from restaurants that use their own delivery staff or are close enough for me to takeout.
You may not know this, but Uber Eats, Grubhub, and DoorDash are skimming off what little profit struggling restaurants are making these days with their extortionate delivery commissions. So the best thing you can do to help out your favorite restaurant is to delete delivery apps, order directly, and takeout.
But that’s just me. If you can’t wait to dine out, below are some of the “creative” ways restaurants will be enforcing social distancing while trying to retain as much of that customary dining experience as possible. This is from the May 27 edition of The Washington Post:
- Filling empty seats with blow-up dolls dressed up to look like fellow diners.
- Using ‘bumper tables where diners step into a rolling table surrounded by an inner tube so they can eat, socialize and walk around the space without worrying about getting too close to anyone.’
- Placing cardboard cutouts of customers in random seats around the restaurant, and playing background noise to simulate the din of a crowded restaurant.
Do you find this inviting…?
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