Some NYC restaurateurs opt to give up outdoor dining sheds under new rules

(6 Aug 2024)
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New York - 31 July 2024
1. Medium of worker demolishing outdoor dining shed at Ruffian Wine Bar

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Cournot, owner, Ruffian Wine Bar:
"I don't know if it was ever good for us in the first place.

3. Tight of worker demolishing outdoor dining shed at Ruffian Wine Bar
4. Wide of worker demolishing outdoor dining shed at Ruffian Wine Bar

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Cournot, owner, Ruffian Wine Bar:
"When we first did this, at the height of COVID, we had no choices.”

6. Wide of workers demolishing outdoor dining shed at Ruffian Wine Bar as cyclists pass on street
7. Wide of Patrick Cournot and workers demolishing outdoor dining shed

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Cournot, owner, Ruffian Wine Bar:
"The last four years have been pretty tough. And I think that we've done a great job considering how tough it was.”

9. Medium of Cournot as dining shed is demolished
10. Wide of Cournot during demolition
11. Detail of demolition

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Cournot, owner, Ruffian Wine Bar:
"New York City is changing their laws for outdoor dining, and requiring for participants to start with a new set of laws that will both have fees, extra requirements and, significantly, also have to take their outdoor setups down every single year."

13. Wide of demolition
14. Detail of demolition
15. Wide of demolition with business front in background

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Cournot, owner, Ruffian Wine Bar:
"We're not going to be continuing this."

17. Tight of workers demolishing dining shed
18. Wide of workers demolishing dining shed

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Cournot, owner, Ruffian Wine Bar:
"When people say, you know, it's the end of an era, I think it's the end of a very bad era. A uniquely awful era for restaurants in New York"

20. Overall of worker demolishing dining shed
21. Medium of dining shed at Caffe de Martini

22. SOUNDBITE (English) Camila Soto, co-owner, Caffe de Martini:
"It's sad that we have to shut this down because it's an extension of our business. Like, with this, we can, like, have more people to come and sit and enjoy and, like, live the experience of the coffee shop"

23. Wide of Caffe de Martini from within shed
24. Tight of Soto working at cafe
25. Detail of Soto working at cafe
26. Tight of "OPEN" sign on cafe door

27. SOUNDBITE (English) Camila Soto, co-owner, Caffe de Martini:
"I believe it's just about the money. Like, honestly, just building this was expensive, like way expensive."

28. Wide of dining shed
29. Low angle of customer within dining shed

30. SOUNDBITE (English) Camila Soto, co-owner, Caffe de Martini:
"We applied and we want to do it because, as I say, it's a good thing for our business. But honestly, we would prefer just to keep this one instead of like redo the whole thing from the beginning."

31. Medium of customer within dining shed
32. Medium of customer within dining shed
33. Medium of cafe front

34. SOUNDBITE (English) Camila Soto, co-owner, Caffe de Martini:
“We will try the first year and see how it goes but if it is more expensive to storage the thing, and, like, build it, and you know like, build all of this, beside compared to all the money we get, like, in sales, like, and customers, we will just shut it down and we will keep this a small space and that's it."

35. Details inside dining shed
36. Wide shot of pedestrians passing shed
37. Pan of Soto working inside cafe

STORYLINE:
New York City changed the rules on outdoor dining sheds introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.


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