Mayor Michelle Wu said that the citywide changes to the outdoor dining rules that have some restaurants across the city in a stew are the result of turning “two years of experiments” into a long-term program and that the city’s “looking into” what resources to provide. “I know that people have made different purchases and investments based on previous years and based on these two years of experiments,” Wu said when asked about the criticism from restaurants around Boston. Barriers had been fairly ad-hoc up to this point, but now the city says restaurants either need to use concrete Jersey barriers, or the plastic ones that you fill up with water. The city’s 24-page “Interdepartmental Guidance” document about outdoor dining for restaurant owners includes a rundown of these rules, plus some pictures of Jersey barriers to drive the point home. In the last couple years, we’ve been very lucky in some ways that there hasn’t been a major incident.”

Source: Forbes April 01, 2022 19:44 UTC