> For me, loving restaurants is about all the stuff that surrounds the thing on your plate. It’s the buzz and hum of a busy dining room. It’s the friendly bante

> For me, loving restaurants is about all the stuff that surrounds the thing on your plate. It’s the buzz and hum of a busy dining room. It’s the friendly banter with bartenders and servers. It’s celebrating milestones with friends and family. I feel this. It's honestly what I miss the most about normal life. Going and getting some tacos and a margarita after a stressful day at work. That kind of thing. It's weird, the small but all-encompassing emotional toll it takes to not have that outlet available to unwind. It's like I just can't quite exhale all the way. All this is to say: simply opening places back up right now won't restore the thing that moves me to go out to them. The inability to fully relax still permeates every corner of life, even if the risk has decreased a bit.