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VOCAB WORDS:
- indoors
- outdoors
- seating
- to operate
- to contain

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Downtown Sarasota restaurant Duval’s Fresh. Local. Seafood. adapted quickly when Florida restaurants were ordered closed except for takeout and delivery to contain the spread of COVID-19; merging operations with sister restaurants Element: Modern Mediterranean Grill and Plaza Bistro -n- Tavern, as well as adding groceries and other new offerings. 

Now like many other Florida restaurants, Duval’s has reopened for dine-in under the current state guidelines allowing 25 percent indoor capacity and outdoor seating, with social distancing of at least six feet for both. Element and PBnT currently remain closed, and Duval’s will still offer takeout and delivery.

Jim Abrams, who heads the American Dreams Restaurant Group that operates all three restaurants, discussed how Duval’s has been handling this challenge in an April 29 interview, the same day Gov. Ron DeSantis announced restaurants would be allowed to reopen.

We will reopen Duval’s — that will really give us a kind of test case to see what the demand is for inside seating or even outside seating, and then we’ll go from there. The other restaurants, they just could not survive. That’s not how it works in the restaurant business, you’re trying to have as many seats as what you can effectively fill and hopefully then have a couple of turns at night at Element, for instance. And at (25 percent) capacity, those numbers just aren’t going to play out.

CREDITS:
Article: Restaurant News: Duval's in Sarasota on reopening, responding to pandemic
Author: Jimmy Geurts
Publisher: Herald-Tribune
Link: https://www.heraldtribune.com/entertainment/20200507/restaurant-news-duvals-in-sarasota-on-reopening-responding-to-pandemic