So far I've used a delivery service if I haven't fancied cooking. What happens if you go to a restaurant and place an order to take home. Do you just sit there and wait or are you allowed to have a drink while your waiting?

Sit and wait they mostly have chairs 6 feet apart.

Water is available in many places 

I don't think they are supposed to be serving food and drinks, even water. That's kind of the point of closing service. For everyone's safety I would avoid being inside the restaurant except for perhaps a short time to accept the food and pay. They might be infected. You might be infected. The same reason people aren't supposed to invite ANYONE into their homes unless there is an emergency or already living there. This virus is massively infectious. It can even be spread by talking and breath. 

32 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I don't think they are supposed to be serving food and drinks, even water. That's kind of the point of closing service. For everyone's safety I would avoid being inside the restaurant except for perhaps a short time to accept the food and pay. They might be infected. You might be infected. The same reason people aren't supposed to invite ANYONE into their homes unless there is an emergency or already living there. This virus is massively infectious. It can even be spread by talking and breath. 

But if the restaurant is infected then surely your food will be infected too, so you may as well go and sit inside.

 

Anyway, I have total confidence in my hand-stitched cloth face mask, lol.

31 minutes ago, Guderian said:

But if the restaurant is infected then surely your food will be infected too, so you may as well go and sit inside.

 

Anyway, I have total confidence in my hand-stitched cloth face mask, lol.

Cooked food is considered safe. Raw foods not so much. Virus of course can be on packaging. 

59 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Cooked food is considered safe. Raw foods not so much. Virus of course can be on packaging. 

I think  I will stick to fool delivery . I wash my hands after unpacking the food and before I eat,

3 minutes ago, roger101 said:

I think  I will stick to fool delivery . I wash my hands after unpacking the food and before I eat,

Yes of course. OCD hand washing is the order of the day.

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Yes of course. OCD hand washing is the order of the day.

But what if bacteria was on the receptacle your food was delivered in and that transferred to your food?

 

Where do you stop? 

13 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

But what if bacteria was on the receptacle your food was delivered in and that transferred to your food?

 

Where do you stop? 

That would have always been the case wrt take home food. 

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

That would have always been the case wrt take home food. 

Exactly so everyone getting excited about maintaining social distancing to prevent infection by not going to restaraunts are still potentially exposed.

 

Just coz they're getting deliveries by no means prevent them becoming infected.

1 minute ago, HashBrownHarry said:

Just coz they're getting deliveries by no means prevent them becoming infected.

Well you were talking of bacteria and the issue is a virus!

Just now, jacko45k said:

Well you were talking of bacteria and the issue is a virus!

correct.

20 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Cooked food is considered safe. Raw foods not so much. Virus of course can be on packaging. 

Yes, with the virus supposed to be able to last for hours on cardboard and days on plastic containers they're definitely the weak link. I've read elsewhere that cooked food is considered safe, presumably because the heat of cooking will kill the virus (good excuse to eat pizza!). But if the virus is airborne in a kitchen, or one of the staff is infected and shedding it, then I wonder if your rapidly cooling food will still kill it?

Here's my restaurant at home.