As a business model, it only works with outside dining," he says. On good nights, when there is enough demand to fill outdoor seating at One White Street, the restaurant's capacity increases by 40 to 50 percent.
It's going to feel more like our sidewalk seating rather than, 'Let me shove you in the barn that we built three and a half years ago,' he says. 'Our outdoor dining is getting upgraded with these new regulations.
Despite the challenges, 2,941 restaurants applied for a total of 3,610 permits under the new outdoor-dining program, a significant increase compared to pre-pandemic numbers.
The end of the temporary rules has caused plenty of hand-wringing, but if the city is actually trying to kill outdoor dining, as has been theorized, it's doing a bad job.
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