The pandemic’s winter surge is forcing restaurants in cities with strict indoor-dining restrictions to consider creative construction solutions to make outdoor-only service viable during cold winter months
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Peter Dorfman
Peter Dorfman is a freelance writer based in Bloomington, Indiana. An award-winning magazine journalist, he writes about technology, entrepreneurship, manufacturing, business, finance, health care, education, science, travel, politics and sports.
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