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Here in Ohio the new protocol for restaurants is customers must have on a mask entering the establishment. You can take it off when eating(of course). I don't know whether you can take off the mask once you get to table or booth, or if you need to wait until you get your food. Once you are ready to leave you need to put the mask back on. I assume, if you need to use the restroom, masks must be worn.
Likely a gas mask.
Your point does raise a question though - if you are saying you will NOT dine in because staff are not wearing masks, are you also saying you are unlikely to dine in until all staff start wearing masks?
We’re at high risk from Covid-19 due to age, so we’re going to continue taking precautions for some time, including eating more takeout and less dine-in. How long we’ll do that I don’t know, but it won’t be related to the pre-existing risks. Those risks are included in the overall risks of eating food not prepared in our own kitchen, not limited to respiratory transmission of diseases.
Makes sense. Another reason I asked that question had to do with the realization that as time has gone by, we've stopped eating at many places we used to because of the less than ideal conditions we started to experience prior to COVID-19. It has been many months since we visited a buffet - and to be fair, I think a lot of that motivation has to do with the fact I work in the public education sector and have to deal with kids who can't seem to understand the importance of hand washing after using the restroom......(although - sadly - too many adults display this habit as well...) We radically decreased our dining out at fast food restaurants too, although we will still take advantage of a deal or two -via drive thru usually- when the opportunity presents itself. I think a perfect storm has developed where between rapidly increasing prices, increased germ awareness, and just plain average (at best) food, the push to eat at home has become much stronger with us.
Of course. And Covid-19 has nothing to do with it.
There would certainly be some risk associated with food prepared outside your home, but I would think food prepared on a to-go basis would have the benefit of less exposure to a fewer number of people than food served in a restaurant (and perhaps in the company of other people).
