The new standard specified detailed requirements for service and management of separate dining in restaurants based on the different characteristics of the dining venues and styles, according to the Shanghai municipal administration for market regulation.
The standard also proposed that restaurants should offer separate dining menus and inform customers of relevant information.
Many restaurants in Shanghai have already promoted separate dining. Time-honored brand Guangmingcun Restaurant, for example, has provided serving chopsticks and spoons for customers since March. Free hand disinfectant is also available in the restaurant to ensure safety.
Zhang Wenhong, head of the center for infectious disease with Shanghai-based Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, said that separate dining is a way of social distancing just like wearing masks, and can effectively reduce the risk of virus spreading.
So far, about 30 percent of the restaurants in Shanghai have provided separate dining services, local authorities said.
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