I've been thinking about this article - and all of your comments - since yesterday, and there's one aspect of it that is missing: The customer's perspective.

What will a restaurant have to do/say/post before I am comfortable going into one again?

Restaurant tables - like she mentioned in her article - are jammed closely together. If they separate tables by 4 feet, is that enough for me? (And, can they make any money with only 30% of the table tops they used to have?)

Ok. Maybe they publish their cleaning procedures, and each table has hand sanitizer and ... so what? In America, unfortunately, the wait staff still handles your credit card; it's like Europe in the 1980's. So did my server wash/sanitize their hands after they handled that person's card over there? Or that one? Or... dang... it's busy in here... they are running like crazy... who has time for that?

And what about bars and coffee shops, where the tables are cleaned/sanitized once a day, at opening? Who sat here before I was here? And before them? How many people have sat here in the last 3 hours, spreading crap on the table?

Until there is a vaccine and I have it (or proof I have antibodies and the reinfections they are seeing are proven anomalous) I just don't see myself going out and patronizing any of my favorite restaurants, coffee shops, or bars.

If and when I do, they will have all failed due to lack of business.

That sucks ass.