What’s the deal with eating outside at restaurants?

People want to eat there food when it's ready and hot instead of waiting to drive back home?

probably more to do with getting drinks, don't you think?

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I just don’t get the fascination with eating on a restaurant patio.

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It's nice to get away and not have to clean up. It's all part of 'eating out'.

people have been stuck at home for 2 months and want to get out....it's not that hard to comprehend

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One of my favorite things about spring is sitting on a patio

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Me too

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with the pup

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Die in a fire

Mainly for people who want to get out of the fricking house

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All the Karens and Chads whining about delays to opening up, what are they going to do when we open up prematurely and see another spike in a month that shuts us down for an additional 6-8 weeks? That'll be equally as devastating, if not more so, to the local businesses they claim they're trying to save. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Bored? Go read a damn book. Get a hobby.

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Where is it you think the virus will go while we wait another month, two months, three months? It's going nowhere and any vaccine (much less mass distribution) within the next 18 months would be a miracle. The curve has been flattened. Hospitals are fine, and some are in financial distress because they cannot perform the elective procedures that actually make money. Open slowly and smartly where deaths are low and take personal responsibility for your own health.

I like eating on the hood of my car in the restaurants parking lot

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Well you aren't me so shut up. Lot's of people like eating outside with drinks and socializing.

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I haven't been able to catch much of the news on this, so apologies if I'm unclear on it.

- No table service, so I assume it is more like a food truck setup where you order at a window/table and get your food in takeout containers?

- Will short order bar service for alcohol be allowed? Like people going back to the bar for additional rounds?

- Is this for anyone with any kind of patio? Or just moreso meant for places with like a bunch of picnic tables that are really spread out? For example, grabbing some takeout food and eating in a parking lot is quite different than going into a patio such as Superior that technically isn't much of a patio (it is a room whose windows roll up or down)

- I assume distancing rules mean you're not anywhere near other tables or people for socializing

I love me a good patio - just trying to get a mental picture, as this sounds closer to grabbing takeout and going have a picnic (which you could already do) than it does like patio seating.

It's obviously not going anywhere, and we obviously are not going to see a vaccine soon. But our numbers are still 12k+ for the metro area, which is nothing to just dismiss. Sit still, let the numbers continue to drop, and we can then ease into the new normal (whatever that might be) once we're at a point where we are no longer flirting with a second spike that undermines the waiting we've done thus far.