OK, as I see it a mask is worn into a restaurant and then we next  go to a table which may or may not have some social distancing precautions in place.

Then as we sit down we take off our mask and then  what??      Shuld  the mask be placed in one's pocket, on the chair, or bench,  or simply thrown on the table to share with all  other guests?

 

Your thoughts?

When i go to a restaurant i don't wear a mask. Eating with a mask would be quite difficult.

Internet Bandwidth could easily be overcome with Replying 'solution' memes for this dilemma  ???? 

 

 

open and shut case really...

2 hours ago, jackdd said:

When i go to a restaurant i don't wear a mask. Eating with a mask would be quite difficult.

 

So you simply disregard wearing a mask outside?

2 hours ago, tifino said:

Internet Bandwidth could easily be overcome with Replying 'solution' memes for this dilemma  ???? 

 

 

open and shut case really...

 

Sorry to disagree with you but you have not in the least answered   the question I asked in my OP.  

 

I'm asking what others think is the best thing to do with the required mask one has worn when entering a restaurant.

 

If you consider the question below you I'll understand your unwillingness to reply.

 

Edited July 17, 20205 yr by Andy from Kent

Common sense surely... 

 

Enter the restaurant wearing the mask. Use the Hand Sanitiser (which should be on offer at the entrance)

Sit at your table.

Remove mask and place it in your pocket immediately, or wait for the food to arrive. 

After eating, wear your mask again, or wait until you are just about to leave. 

 

 

Never put your mask on the table... in much the same way you would never put a used tissue on the table.

 

 

I’m not sure why questions like this exist - perhaps because some are so uncouth they would take off their mask and just leave it on the table. 

 

 

 

Please please.

Do the right thing and be considerate.

Purchase one of these face masks for eating.

I did and use it almost everyday.

The restaurant staff appreciates it.  They smile and nod.

Good luck and be safe.

19 minutes ago, Andy from Kent said:

 

So you simply disregard wearing a mask outside?

Why would you wear a mask in the open air street anyway...

4 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

Why would you wear a mask in the open air street anyway...

Good question.  But everyone in Thailand seems to do it!

11 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

Why would you wear a mask in the open air street anyway...

Most restraunts have Egyptians nearby...

4 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Most restraunts have Egyptians nearby...

 

Would you find fault with  being overly cautious if you consider it  to be so?

 

11 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Good question.  But everyone in Thailand seems to do it!

 

And isn't Thailand one of the lowest impacted countries in the world with Covid-19?

 

 

16 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

Why would you wear a mask in the open air street anyway...

 

 There's a report in the BBC site pointing out there's over 200 scientists who feel there  remains a case to be made for COVID-19 being an airborne transmitted  disease.      That would certainly be one good reason.

 

3 minutes ago, Andy from Kent said:

 

Would you find fault with  being overly cautious if you consider it  to be so?

 

 

And isn't Thailand one of the lowest impacted countries in the world with Covid-19?

 

 

 

 There's a report in the BBC site pointing out there's over 200 scientists who feel there  remains a case to be made for COVID-19 being an airborne transmitted  disease.      That would certainly be one good reason.

 

You want to talk etiquette or science?

Solution.......

 

When you leave your house----No Mask

When you enter the restaurant----No Mask

When you eat -----No Mask

When you leave the restaurant---No Mask

When you go to a bar after the restaurant----No Mask

When you go home---No Mask

 

Next day....... Wash Rinse Repeat....... 

Edited July 17, 20205 yr by redwood1

2 hours ago, tribalfusion001 said:

2 hours ago, tribalfusion001 said:

Why would you wear a mask in the open air street anyway...

Why would you wear a mask in the open air street anyway...

Depends on a number of variable I suppose. The number and close proximity of others being one I would consider. I would make my own judgement at any particular circumstance. I'm an adult and am fully capable of making my own decisions regarding my personal safety.

Regarding wearing a mask at a restaurant. Some-one, some-where is messing with you. There's no way I'd comply. The whole point of going to a restaurant is to have a pleasant experience. Not a nanny mandated compliance to lack of comfort.

Normally food is ingested orally and secreted anally. No way am I dining out and stuffing food where a monkey stores its nuts.

 

Edited July 17, 20205 yr by alacrity

I wear the mask from the car to the restaurant.  After ordering food I lower it under my chin.  Lift it back up when getting up from the table to leave.  So my pockets stay uncontaminated.  Easy enough.

3 hours ago, Andy from Kent said:

 

 

 

When you are inside the restaurant, just put on the mask until the food arrives. 

 

Then put the mask inside your trousers. Don't put on the table which might be contaminated.

6 hours ago, jackdd said:

When i go to a restaurant i don't wear a mask. Eating with a mask would be quite difficult.

Nt-nt...

New normal, you have been told and told. So :

USE A STRAW you have adapted in advance to your mask (precisely please) ! Wash it with chemicals before and after. Ask your meal overcooked (you never know). And passed in a mixer (better not forget this one)...

For your safety.

29 minutes ago, mojaco said:

I wear the mask from the car to the restaurant.  After ordering food I lower it under my chin.  Lift it back up when getting up from the table to leave.  So my pockets stay uncontaminated.  Easy enough.

I bet your pockets appreciate being covid free!

On 7/17/2020 at 8:58 PM, mojaco said:

I wear the mask from the car to the restaurant.  After ordering food I lower it under my chin.  Lift it back up when getting up from the table to leave.  So my pockets stay uncontaminated.  Easy enough.

 

That sounds like a very good technique!

On 7/17/2020 at 6:07 PM, Olmate said:

You want to talk etiquette or science?

 

In case you couldn't notice, I replied to comments made which didn't address my OP.

I suppose you overlooked that.

On 7/17/2020 at 6:02 PM, Andy from Kent said:

And isn't Thailand one of the lowest impacted countries in the world with Covid-19?

...maybe because everyone wears a mask!

Countries that have the freedumb not to wear a mask seem to be top of the CV-19 league.

 

As for the question, I wear a mask until seated, once at the table I take off, put in my pocket. I put it back on again after paying the bill and am about to leave.

 

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Edited July 25, 20205 yr by Stocky