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I am sorry, I don't understand- can you explain this? What construction was required for safety measures? Especially such that required wood specifically?

• gcr 4y ago
  In NYC, some restaurants could reopen and conduct business as usual if they were classified as outdoor venues. This interacted oddly with another regulation that let a restaurant count as “outdoor” if part of its seating area had outdoor seats, so you had a lot of restaurants in the middle of the bustling city build these gazebo-type structures that put some number of tables right on the sidewalk in the midst of pedestrian foot traffic. For a small restaurant owner, the combination of these two loopholes created an intense pressure where building out this outdoor seating was simply a requirement of doing business
  • kevstev 4y ago
    You really think this causes lumber prices to fly through the roof though? It may have been a factor but it seems a stretch that NYC restaurants would increase demand that much.