Are to-go restaurants in NYC still open?

[Anonymous]

How could you feel conformable eating to-go food when this virus has consumed the entire city?
Further, if open, how do they get staff to show up?

[Anonymous]

Not sure, but I'm in the DC area and I have not given in to the temptation of take-out food for nearly a month. I know it's unlikely to transmit via eating food, but the science regarding the novel virus changes every day and who knows what they'll be telling us in a week or two.

[Anonymous]

Your groceries are take out food. I suggest you stop eating to save yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure, but I'm in the DC area and I have not given in to the temptation of take-out food for nearly a month. I know it's unlikely to transmit via eating food, but the science regarding the novel virus changes every day and who knows what they'll be telling us in a week or two.

I agree with this. I'm trying to be a little more conservative than "what the evidence shows" because that seems to be evolving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your groceries are take out food. I suggest you stop eating to save yourself.

please stop interrupting a real conversation unless you have something to say

[Anonymous]

Of course they are still open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your groceries are take out food. I suggest you stop eating to save yourself.

please stop interrupting a real conversation unless you have something to say

No really. How do you think the strawberries got into that little container and potatoes into that bag and that lovely stack of apples at the grocery store?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your groceries are take out food. I suggest you stop eating to save yourself.

please stop interrupting a real conversation unless you have something to say

PP is right. Choosing not to patronize restaurants will have an effect on the restaurants but isn't safer than buying groceries at the store or using Instacart. PP may or may not be aware of that while she is "saving" herself.

[Anonymous]

I heard this morning that it is now 40% of police officers out sick.

[Anonymous]

I live in NYC, and have been ordering takeout once a week to support my favorite local restaurants. I want them to be around once we all come out of hibernation! As long as you dispose of the packaging quickly and wash your hands right away, it's fine. It's not the food that's going to transmit the disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your groceries are take out food. I suggest you stop eating to save yourself.

please stop interrupting a real conversation unless you have something to say

PP is right. Choosing not to patronize restaurants will have an effect on the restaurants but isn't safer than buying groceries at the store or using Instacart. PP may or may not be aware of that while she is "saving" herself.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How could you feel conformable eating to-go food when this virus has consumed the entire city?
Further, if open, how do they get staff to show up?

From the Hopkins Coronavirus map, there are 43,119 positive cases in NYC at the moment. There are 8.6 million residents in NYC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in NYC, and have been ordering takeout once a week to support my favorite local restaurants. I want them to be around once we all come out of hibernation! As long as you dispose of the packaging quickly and wash your hands right away, it's fine. It's not the food that's going to transmit the disease.

+1 get food you can dump in a plate/bowl then microwave it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in NYC, and have been ordering takeout once a week to support my favorite local restaurants. I want them to be around once we all come out of hibernation! As long as you dispose of the packaging quickly and wash your hands right away, it's fine. It's not the food that's going to transmit the disease.

...because some bureaucrat or talking head newsman on TV told you so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in NYC, and have been ordering takeout once a week to support my favorite local restaurants. I want them to be around once we all come out of hibernation! As long as you dispose of the packaging quickly and wash your hands right away, it's fine. It's not the food that's going to transmit the disease.

+1 get food you can dump in a plate/bowl then microwave it

To kill the virus, you need to get all of the food (not just the stuff at the top) to at least 140 degrees.