Restaurants

[Rianne]

I would like to see them wearing gloves and changing them very frequently.

But if they sneeze on the food, does your digestion kill the virus? Are our cheeks and tongues susceptible to the virus. They say skin is safe.

 

[COcheesehead]

We are doing take out from locally owned restaurants. Orders have to be online so no exchange of credit cards. Workers are wearing gloves. There is risk in anything, but we feel like we are doing our part to make sure our favorite restaurants are still around on the other end of all of this. All the ones we talked to say business is good. Our county has only 14 cases. Fingers crossed.

 

[Chuckanut]

I live in a county in MO without a single confirmed case of Covid-19, but all the restaurants in town have closed their dining rooms and if they are still open at all, are only offering take out or delivery.

People are staying home in droves!

You folks are wise even though you have no reported cases yet.

Remember, what we see today is the result of what happened a week to two weeks ago. It doesn't reflected today's actual conditions.

 

[Argus]

Restaurants on the our area have been closed for weeks. many offering take out only. Now they're struggling and may give that up.

We're supporting with the take out as best possible.

 

[Teacher Terry]

We are getting takeout twice a week. I read a article by a doctor that said cooking kills the virus.

 

[Midpack]

We’re also doing takeout three times a week at our favorite restaurants in an effort to support them. However I know servers and many other restaurant employees aren’t benefitting from takeout. Very sad.

 

[Sunset]

We’re also doing takeout three times a week at our favorite restaurants in an effort to support them. However I know servers and many other restaurant employees aren’t benefitting from takeout. Very sad.

If the business survives, it will hire them back (at least the good ones) as business picks up.
A bankrupt restaurant will sit empty for [-]many months[/-] a year until the economy is booming again

 

[statsman]

One of our favorite restaurants has sit-down, take-out, and drive-thru options (sit-down is currently closed). While we like the food when in the restaurant, it doesn't hold up well taking it home, even after heating it up. We see so many people use their drive-thru and take-out service we just assumed it would hold up. Sadly, it doesn't for us.

 

[RobbieB]

I fear many of the little mom and pop places (my favs, don't like chains) will be done for good. How do you pay the rent with no dough?

 

[Music Lover]

One of our favorite restaurants has sit-down, take-out, and drive-thru options (sit-down is currently closed). While we like the food when in the restaurant, it doesn't hold up well taking it home, even after heating it up. We see so many people use their drive-thru and take-out service we just assumed it would hold up. Sadly, it doesn't for us.

Some food delivers well and heats up well, other food not so much. We're still ordering Chinese and pizzas because we want to help restaurants if we can but burgers and fries don't travel very well.

 

[Sunset]

One of our favorite restaurants has sit-down, take-out, and drive-thru options (sit-down is currently closed). While we like the food when in the restaurant, it doesn't hold up well taking it home, even after heating it up. We see so many people use their drive-thru and take-out service we just assumed it would hold up. Sadly, it doesn't for us.

Plus no matter how loudly I snap my fingers, nobody comes and refills my water glass

 

[Ready]

I’ve always found Chinese food and pizza to hold up well for take out. Both can be reheated and still taste pretty good.

Most fried food is not going to taste good for take out, especially French fries. They were meant to be eaten right out of the fryer.

The worst thing is when you order an item that has both hot and cold ingredients in it. For example, a salad topped with hot chicken. You end up with a warm salad and cold chicken.

 

[CardsFan]

I’ve always found Chinese food and pizza to hold up well for take out. Both can be reheated and still taste pretty good.

Most fried food is not going to taste good for take out, especially French fries. They were meant to be eaten right out of the fryer.

The worst thing is when you order an item that has both hot and cold ingredients in it. For example, a salad topped with hot chicken. You end up with a warm salad and cold chicken.

We have found that an air fryer works wonders with cold fried food. Fries, fish, chicken. Way better than the oven or microwave.

For cold pizza, I have found hitting it in the microwave for 30-60 secs, and then warming in a fry pan gets pretty close to how I like it.

 

[Ready]

We have found that an air fryer works wonders with cold fried food. Fries, fish, chicken. Way better than the oven or microwave.

For cold pizza, I have found hitting it in the microwave for 30-60 secs, and then warming in a fry pan gets pretty close to how I like it.

A convection oven will also reheat fried food pretty well and make it somewhat crispy.

But for fries I find the frozen ones that you buy in the supermarket, heated in a convection oven, still taste better than take out fries that get cold and need to be reheated. I’d rather just choose a side that holds better or takes more effort to prepare. The home fries are so easy to make that I can’t be bothered going to a restaurant for them.

 

[ncbill]

We’re also doing takeout three times a week at our favorite restaurants in an effort to support them. However I know servers and many other restaurant employees aren’t benefitting from takeout. Very sad.

Ditto, but I don't think it will be enough to save most of our local independent restaurants.

A guy we know who spent every evening wearing a suit as host in our local Italian restaurant is now relegated to delivery driver...and he admits business is very slow.

 

[Moemg]

A lot of the small local restaurants tried take out for a week and then just closed .

 

[Ready]

We have not done take out since restaurants shut down. I know a lot of restaurants are really struggling right now. But I think our country is still in shock at how quickly things have changed in the past 3 weeks.

As people get through the initial shock and learn to adjust to the new “normal” of being at home all day long they are going to want to reintroduce some treats back into their lives by eating restaurant food again. So if pickup or delivery is all that’s available eventually people will incorporate this into their weekly routines. Maybe not to the same level we were eating in restaurants prior to the pandemic, but more than we are doing so right now.

 

[KarenF]

We are only doing curbside service for takeout. My husband and I are not interacting with anybody else. We bring the takeout home and put it on a dirty side (marked) on a table. We dump the food onto plates, dispose of the containers and sanitize hands, etc before we eat. I would not walk into a restaurant right now. We are also wearing masks when we go out. We are in our late fifties and very healthy.

 

[Sunset]

A lot of the small local restaurants tried take out for a week and then just closed .

Some expensive ones as well.
A big issue was if they were not doing takeout previously, it's hard to adapt, as the menu may not work well, and nobody is used to ordering takeout from them, etc..

 

[USGrant1962]

We have not done take out since restaurants shut down. I know a lot of restaurants are really struggling right now. But I think our country is still in shock at how quickly things have changed in the past 3 weeks.

As people get through the initial shock and learn to adjust to the new “normal” of being at home all day long they are going to want to reintroduce some treats back into their lives by eating restaurant food again. So if pickup or delivery is all that’s available eventually people will incorporate this into their weekly routines. Maybe not to the same level we were eating in restaurants prior to the pandemic, but more than we are doing so right now.

We're there. Haven't been out of the house in 17 days, including my birthday. So tonight we did curbside pickup from the local Italian joint (restaurant, not pizza place). Oh, and it is half-priced bottle of wine Thursday and they do carryout of that too!

We'll probably do next Thursday too.

 

[RobbieB]

I'd like to go get some pick up or delivery stuff to help my peeps out but my wife is scared to death of each new item that enters the house.

I thinks I'd rather be dead than live like this.

 

[Ready]

I'd like to go get some pick up or delivery stuff to help my peeps out but my wife is scared to death of each new item that enters the house.

I thinks I'd rather be dead than live like this.

It’s common for people to panic when there is a major crisis. Looking at the hoarding of household staples gives you a good indication of how irrational people are being. So cut her some slack. She’s clearly not the only one overreacting. It’s a scary world out there. I do believe that our society will adjust to this new normal after some period of time. It will take a few more weeks or so of realizing that life can still go on even with the need to be primarily home bound.

 

[Ready]

Little Caesar’s is running a new ad campaign for contactless pizza. Yes, they are actively promoting that nobody will touch your pizza the entire time it is being made.

It used to be they advertised extra cheese or thick crust. Now all that matters is no human contact. Amazing how much the world has changed in three weeks.

 

[Sunset]

I'd like to go get some pick up or delivery stuff to help my peeps out but my wife is scared to death of each new item that enters the house.

I thinks I'd rather be dead than live like this.

It can be tense times, this is what I do to make it safer:

I do pickup, and they put the groceries inside my cardboard boxes, I carry the cardboard boxes (only inside the box is possible contamination) to the kitchen.
then I clean the stuff as below (and throw out their plastic bags the groceries were inside)

I wear the blue gloves when washing the groceries. as below in quotes:

I'm going to continue to put my groceries in the sink and spray with my diluted bleach solution (and wipe/rub packages, food with my gloved hands), then rinse off, or let dry a couple of minutes and put in the fridge.

Canned stuff/cereal boxes/dry stuff like sugar/flour I leave in a box to age 4 days minimum to kill covid-19.

My food does not taste like bleach as bleach evaporates away (unlike dried soap), and it does not cause me any issues.
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I wash my hands at the end.

 

[Midpack]

Little Caesar’s is running a new ad campaign for contactless pizza. Yes, they are actively promoting that nobody will touch your pizza the entire time it is being made.

It used to be they advertised extra cheese or thick crust. Now all that matters is no human contact. Amazing how much the world has changed in three weeks.

So is Domino’s Pizza, started past Monday.

We’re still doing takeout 3 times a week. Only order cooked foods, and we transfer all the food from containers to our own plates and discard the containers before eating. The containers don’t touch our counters and we wash our hands after disposing of the containers before eating. Don’t know if it makes a difference or not, but it’s easy enough to do.