Restaurants can open for outdoor seating

Restaurants can open for outdoor seating

Valley can reopen for outdoor seating only.

You can now eat (at( the restaurant...just not (in( the restaurant.

News channel 2's caitlin irla spoke with local restaurant owners who say there are ready!

Local restaurant owners are excited to start serving their customers... even if it's only outdoors and limited capacity.

"we're just excited to get open our employees are excited to get back going and our customers seem to be excited."

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None "all of the condiments will be wiped down and brought to the table for use then re-cleaned.

We really plan to make sure we are doing our part here at babes to make sure the customers, our employees, and everyone's safe."

Standup -- "all of the tables out on the patio here at babes are already measured 6 feet apart.

That's just one of the guidelines restaurants have to follow to serve customers."

"all employees will have face masks; we'll ask customers to wear their face masks until their seated and all department of health and cdc regulations will be followed."

Carmella's cafe, in new hartford, working hard to make sure they're ready.

2:47:17 i do think everyone is ready 2:47:18 there's pent up desire but i also know there is some anxiety.

People are going to go where they feel the safest and we hope we can do that for them 2:47:28 carmella's is taking it a step further with disposable menus, gloves, and extra sanitation.

<"we're going to have the disposable menus, the sanitation the gloves the mask the six feet spacing, all our servers will be gloved and masked, we'll be throwing away the menus, and hand sanitizer for anyone who needs it so we should be in good shape."

Other stand up -- "in utica, the mayor says that restaurants can utilize sidewalks for outdoor seating.

You won't be charged for the space, but you will need to fill out this application which you can find at the city's website or wktv.com.

"i think the biggest components is that its free, we'll go through the applications as quickly as we can, we'll answer any questions people may have."

"we're noted for our food, people come from all over so we want to make sure that we accommodate restaurateurs the best we can."

Mayor palmieri says if the business serves alcohol, they much get authorization from the state liquor authority.

Caitlin irla, news channel 2.

> it was a chaotic day for new hartford