//Berkeley Will Fully Close Its Streets to Create Giant Outdoor Dining Rooms

Berkeley Will Fully Close Its Streets to Create Giant Outdoor Dining Rooms

Owners of the Bay Area’s restaurants agree on one thing: It’ll be damn near impossible to stay in business if their dining room capacity is cut. While California’s guidelines for restaurant reopening don’t specify a specific slash in capacity, they do require social distancing measures between patrons and workers, which means that to make enough money to remain afloat, restaurants need way more space to serve diners. In response, officials across the Bay Area have discussed taking over street space