Reopening, Warily

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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When Louisiana’s stay-at-home order expires today, restaurants across the state can begin allowing customers back inside, at their own discretion. So how do restaurant owners feel about the decision they now face? For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Guest: Jasmine Lombrage, a restaurant owner in Baton Rouge, La. Background reading: America’s reopening has begun in force, just weeks after the coronavirus put most of the country on lockdown. See which states are reopening and which are still shut down.Even before the C.D.C. released checklists to help businesses decide when to reopen, chefs and public officials began considering how a post-pandemic restaurant might look.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily.
0:11.0	When Louisiana's stay at home order expires today, restaurants across the state can begin
0:18.4	allowing customers back inside at their own discretion.
0:23.0	That decision now lies with restaurant owners like Jasmine Lombrage.
0:32.0	It's Friday, May 15th.
0:45.0	Hello. Hi. Hi, how are you? Oh, good. You sound great right now.
0:50.0	Wonderful. Wonderful. Hi. I'm Jasmine Lombrage. Hi, Jasmine. I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:56.0	Hi. Nice to meet you this way. Very nice to meet you this way.
1:01.0	Where exactly am I reaching you? I am at the Bowfish Bar Plus Kitchen here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1:09.0	That's your restaurant. Yes. So how long have you lived in Baton Rouge?
1:16.0	I've been here for about 17 years. My husband has been here over 20 years.
1:23.0	And we have two girls, two beautiful girls. Gabby, she's starting 11 next month.
1:28.0	And we have our gorgeous Angel. She's nine.
1:32.0	How did you and your husband meet? It's the love story. We read it school.
1:39.0	I was in dental hygiene school and he was in culinary school.
1:42.0	He was working at that cafeteria. My friend said that they have good food over there and they wanted to go.
1:49.0	And so we went over there and he was a quiet guy in the corner doing his own thing.
1:54.0	I said, excuse me, what do you have here that is good and healthy that I can eat?
1:58.0	And he looks up and he said, nothing is good enough for you.
2:02.0	Oh, jeez.
2:05.0	And then I turned to walk away and he said, but if you come back tomorrow, I'll make something for you.
2:13.0	And I just kind of smiled and said, no, thank you. And I had a few friends that like, yes, we're coming back tomorrow.
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