Ways restaurateurs are separating guests

Mannequins seated in alternate seats and outdoor dining greenhouses are among the imaginative ways restaurateurs are separating guests at a time of social distancing.

The use of mannequins and stuffed animals to ensure social distancing isn’t likely to become permanent, but has become a temporary fix for restaurants like The Inn at Little Washington—where mannequins donning 1940s garb occupy half the tables—and Maison Saigon in Bangkok, where stuffed pandas ensure people don’t sit too close together. And the plexiglass barriers some restaurants have installed between tables will likely disappear when COVID-19 is no longer deemed a threat.