The document provides guidance for reopening and adapting restaurant businesses during COVID-19. It outlines employers' obligations to inform, train, and educate employees on proper workplace behavior and risk assessment. It also discusses analyzing work processes, identifying at-risk groups, implementing prevention measures like mask-wearing and distancing, and reconfiguring restaurant spaces to comply with health guidelines. Adaptations may include managing traffic flows, installing sanitization stations, rearranging seating, and using outdoor areas to mitigate virus transmission risks.

1. COVID-19:
Technical guidance for reopening
and adapting your restaurant
business

2. Employer’s obligations
The main employer’s obligations are:
• inform, train and educate employees with regard to the proper behaviour to have on a workplace,
• assess the possible risks in a restaurant,
• adopt anti-contagion measures to minimize risk.
Objective
Mitigating the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Analysis
Identification of risk assessment criteria
Prevenzton and protection measures
The UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy
USA Covid-19 relief laws enacted in Martch 2020: CARES Act
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3. Employer’s obligations
Analysis
The analysis is an essential step when adopting the right risk mitigation measures and
must include:
• analysis of work organization,
• subdivision of workers into groups,
• identification of the path ways of the identified groups of workers,
• classification of places,
• analysis of the layout of classified places,
• identification of personnel working outside the company,
• analysis of transportation used by workers,
• identification of contracted activities,
• secondary risk analysis,
• review of emergency plans and procedures.
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4. Employer’s obligations
Prevention and protection measures
Below are the indications for prevention and protection.
• Masks wearing for customers when not sitting at the table (e.g. during cash
payment, movements within premises, use of toilets),
• contactless electronic payments,
• sanitizing the tables at the end of each service
• masks and gloves wearing for staff (table, kitchen and checkout staff)
• health surveillance and protection of vulnerable workers,
• measures to prevent the activation of epidemic outbreaks,
• management of a symptomatic person,
• ventilation,
• updating the regulatory protocol,
• reorganization of working hours,
• prioritize access by reservation to avoid queues and waiting crowds.
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5. Guidelines for the the designer
Prevention and protection measures
Other prevention and protection measures may be as follows.
• managing entry and exit routes,
• set up an area for measuring body temperature,
• install points for hand sanitization,
• review tables and seating arrangements,
• use protective barriers,
• secure the cashier's area,
• manage the internal movements,
• arrange the restaurant pertinent spaces,
• ensure proper air exchange systems,
• Identify some space for the isolation of potentially infected people,
• encourage the use of outdoor spaces.
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6. A case study
Adapting your restaurant during COVID-19: comparison between the surveyed stage and design stage
Current situation Project’s floor plan
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7. A case study
Adapting your restaurant during COVID-19: information signage
Floor plan
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8. A case study
Rearranging your restaurant’s spaces
Till area Dining area
Render realizzati con Edificius
Entrance area
RestroomsEntrance and till area Dining area
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9. Reaopening a restaurant project example
created with Edificius, the architectural BIM design software
(the full trial version can be downaloded for free at https://www.accasoftware.com/)
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