Fanwood residents can now come back out to support our terrific restaurants this holiday weekend by dining outdoors or indoors, adhering to strict and necessary guidelines for re-opening as detailed here by the Governor’s Office. Restaurants may now offer 25% capacity indoor dining as well as the greatly expanded spaces they have created outside. Indoor food and beverage establishments must:
- Limit the number of patrons in indoor areas to 25 percent of the food or beverage establishment’s indoor capacity, excluding the food or beverage establishment’s employees;
- Limit seating to a maximum of eight (8) customers per table (unless they are from a family from the same household) and arrange seating to achieve a minimum distance of six feet (6 ft) between parties;
- Require customers to only consume food or beverages while seated;
- Require patrons to wear face coverings while inside the indoor premises of the food or beverage establishment, except when eating or drinking at their table;
- For food or beverage establishments with table service, require that customers be seated in order to place orders;
- For food or beverage establishments with table service, require that wait staff bring food or beverages to seated customers; and
- Keep doors and windows open where possible and utilize fans to improve ventilation.
Additional information about the re-opening of restaurants can be found at
