The Menu: The new eating out - How our restaurants will look post-lockdown

A man and a woman dining under a plastic shield in a Paris restaurant. Photo: AP Photo/Thibault Camus

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Those business that serve food on their premises to seated customers, mostly restaurants and cafes, are now wrestling with the conundrum of re-opening a month from now, even as full HSE operational guidelines are still unclear at time of going to print, including, crucially, the issue of social distancing, which has the potential to seal the fate of most restaurants.