As Restaurants and Casinos Reopen, You Likely Won’t See Buffets

But they’re not dead yet

Chris Stokel-Walker
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5 min readJul 8, 2020

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Restaurants are reopening and sprawling onto sidewalks. New York City’s hottest spots are yo-yo-ing as Mayor Bill de Blasio weighs the safety of indoor dining, while the craps tables in Las Vegas casinos have reopened as if we’re not in the middle of a global pandemic that’s already killed half a million worldwide…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
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UK-based freelancer for The Guardian, The Economist, BuzzFeed News, the BBC and more. Tell me your story, or get me to write for you: stokel@gmail.com