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:
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"I don't know if it was ever good for us in the first place. When we first did this, at the height of COVID, we had no choices.”
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. Wide of workers demolishing outdoor dining shed at Ruffian Wine Bar as cyclists pass on street
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Cournot, owner, Ruffian Wine Bar:
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"The last four years have been pretty tough. And I think that we've done a great job considering how tough it was.”
7. Wide of Patrick Cournot and workers demolishing outdoor dining shed
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Cournot, owner, Ruffian Wine Bar:
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"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."
9. Medium of Cournot as dining shed is demolished
10. Wide of Cournot during demolition
11. Detail of demolition
12. Wide of demolition
13. Detail of demolition
14. Wide of demolition with business front in background
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Cournot, owner, Ruffian Wine Bar:
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"We're not going to be continuing this. I think it's the end of a very bad era. A uniquely awful era for restaurants in New York."
16. Tight of workers demolishing dining shed
17. Wide of workers demolishing dining shed
18. Overall of worker demolishing dining shed
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Camila Soto, co-owner, Caffe de Martini:
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"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 see it and enjoy and, like, live the experience of the coffee shop."
20. Medium of dining shed at Caffe de Martini
21. Wide of Caffe de Martini from within shed
22. Tight of Soto working at cafe
23. Detail of Soto working at cafe
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Camila Soto, co-owner, Caffe de Martini:
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"I believe it's just about the money. Like, honestly, just building this was expensive, like way expensive."
25. Tight of "OPEN" sign on cafe door
26. Wide of dining shed
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Camila Soto, co-owner, Caffe de Martini:
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"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."
28. Low angle of customer within dining shed
29. Medium of customer within dining shed
30. Medium of customer within dining shed
31. Medium of cafe front
32. SOUNDBITE (English) Camila Soto, co-owner, Caffe de Martini:
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“We will try the first year and see how it goes compared to the money we get in sales and customers, we will just shut it down and we will keep this a small space and that's it."
33. Details inside dining shed
34. Wide shot of pedestrians passing shed
35. Pan of Soto working inside cafe








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

Proprietors now face new fees and regulations on how the structures are built and who can build them.

Most importantly, the sheds must be taken down during the winter months.





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