Restaurants open patios and outdoor seating areas – BRProud.com

Roommates Claire Lynch and Lara Nicholson said, they jumped at the news of restaurants opening their patio and outdoor areas.

She was in a zoom class and I saw the post on Zippys and I just text her like, when youre out of class can we please go to Zippys and she was like of course said Lynch.

Friday is the first day of the governors relaxed orders, giving restaurants a little more leverage to serve their customers.

When the Governor announced it, within ten minutes we got phone calls. Will yall be open Friday, yes, we will. Lets get a little clarification on the rules and well be ready to go on Friday morning said Neal Hendrick, Owner of Zippys

Under the new order, outdoor seating must be cut to 25-percent of seats, tables have to be at least 10 feet apart with a max of ten people at each table.

Our patio with 10 feet apart and then we also have or parking lot with tables in it, 10 feet apart as well.

Hendrick said, hes excited to see his full staff at work and customers enjoying their food.

We have a great response from our customers, the public came out, everybody is doing really good respecting the social distancing. A lot of smile, a lot of happy people today.

Since we have been here today, it has been crowded. We have seen people already starting to sit outside in the parking lot where they kind of created overflow. Its pretty well spaced out said Nicholson.

While theres some relief for restaurants. People said, this is only part of phase one and theres still a long way to go.

I think as long as people are careful and not necessarily saying oh this means everything is back to normal. This shouldnt be a green light, its like a yellow light.

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