Dutch restaurant ETEN, which is part of Amsterdam’s Mediamatic Arts Centre, is trialing an innovative approach to social-distancing dining. As reported by Reuters, a series of small greenhouses (max. capacity: 3) has been constructed along the waterfront outside of their restaurant.
Servers wear gloves and facemasks.
Food is served on long planks, so the servers can slide them onto the tables without entering the greenhouses.
Ditto for busing the dishes afterwards.
If I can point out one flaw, it’s that the tables need those server-summoning buttons they have in Asia. In the photo below, you can clearly see the two dudes on the right are desperate for refills.
And while the solution is Dutch, the marketing contains a bit of French. “Organisers call the project ‘Serres Séparées’ (Separate Greenhouses),” Reuters reports, “because they say it sounds better in French.”
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