At 5am on Thursday morning, New York City suspended outdoor dining yet again.
The alert had come directly into the inboxes of restaurant owners around the city and it had been at least the fourth time the city was notifying restaurants about changes to the already byzantine stream of outdoor dining regulations in response to the changing weather conditions. The first had been in response to the 50 miles per hour gusts of wind that struck dramatically last November and the next three times had been at the onset of another snowstorm. This one, some would say, was not so bad. Only ‘roadway’ dining operations and not sidewalk ones, a curious distinction. But some restaurateurs are sick of it.
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