Italy lockdown restaurants open3/1/2024 Our temperatures were checked and when we didn’t show any signs of fever, we were then escorted to our table outside. Everyone inside was wearing a mask as well. A dispenser of hand sanitizer was placed before the entrance as we were required to use it. It was the right ambience that we needed to reconnect again with life outside our confined space.īooked in advance, we arrived at the restaurant with our masks on. It has a big open outdoor space and the tables are right on the sand and on a wooden platform with table umbrellas protecting us from the sun. Our choice was one of the restaurants we used to frequent, La Scialuppa Da Salvatore located in Fregene, a beach town just a few kilometers from where we live. After serious rumination about the possibility of a family lunch on the beach, we decided to go for it with caution. But with the sun shining so brightly and the blue sky so inviting, it was nature beckoning me to head towards the direction of the beach and bask under the sun. Being a writer about restaurants and being used to dining out almost everyday, it’s a considerable change of daily routine for me. Masks are required at all times as it is everywhere in the country.ĭuring the lockdown, I already had a mental list of the things that my family and I needed as soon as the shops open and lunch in a restaurant was not among them. Then there’s the use of natural air flow and ventilation of the place and prioritizing the outdoor spaces more than the inside. Sanitation of surfaces is rigorously required which includes salt, pepper and oil dispensers, better if they are for single use. Menus have to be digitally presented, written on boards on the wall, or printed on paper that cannot be reused anymore. Family members living together in one house can stay together in one table with the declaration of the relationship while the rest have to stay in separate tables. Some of the new rules include the reduced capacity of clients for the required 4-square meter space allotted per client and 2-meter distancing of the tables. The rules imposed by the government are stringent and extremely difficult for the restaurants to follow. The new normality is far from how life was before the virus. Thus, we enter phase two, a well-adapted program towards the new normality which includes the opening of the restaurants. Our health has been prioritized by the government when the pandemic started but after two and half months of standstill, the economic aspect needs desperate resuscitation. The second phase that the country is entering was engineered with a set of general and specific rules mapped out by a group of expert advisers of the government on how we can live and slowly function with the virus still present around us while we wait for the vaccine to arrive. In Italy, the phase two regulations of the coronavirus emergency were implemented on the 18th of May after the complete national lockdown last 9 March when the whole country was ordered to stay home and close all unnecessary business activities. After being sheltered inside the four corners of my home with my family for 75 days because of the covid-19 pandemic, it felt very strange to step out on the streets again trying to regain the freedom we once had.
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