I keep records of this kind of stuff, as part of my spending records.
Anyway, as many of you have known for years, Frank and I normally eat lunch at an Italian mom'n'pop restaurant every day. Mandates had local restaurants shut down for eating indoors from 3/16/2020 to 5/15/2020.
On 324 of the 336 days since then, we have eaten lunch indoors at our usual restaurants (masked and distanced as the mandates required). We stayed home on 12 days due to Hurricane Zeta, ice storms, torrential rains, digestive upsets, one sleepless night, and once due to a thrown out back.
We are old, eating out means a lot to us, and we are glad we had the freedom to make the choices we did. We accepted that there was a risk that we might get sick. It turned out that neither of us has had even a cold or other virus since before the pandemic.
The restaurants were extremely cautious to not violate the mandates, since if they did so their restaurant license would be immediately revoked. This is strictly enforced, here. We were careful about obeying mandates too. Anyway, earlier this month, the limitations on how many customers could be served (50% of capacity) were removed and it's back to 100%. Therefore the signs on every-other-table saying you couldn't sit there, were removed.
We usually go at around 3 PM so at that time of day, that didn't make any difference in how many customers were there. Usually there is only 1-2 other tables with customers when we get there.