Valentine’s Day usually brings a rush of lovestruck couples to restaurants. That’s the case this year too – along with a reprieve from the frigid temps in Chicago, but also with restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Valentine’s Day usually brings a rush of lovestruck couples to restaurants. That’s the case this year too – along with a reprieve from the frigid temps in Chicago, but also with restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CBS 2’s Marissa Parra on Sunday explored how some restaurants are getting creative with the capacity limits. Money doesn’t buy love, but it turns out the day of love brings business. “That’s a good thing to have the phone starting to ring, we like this sound, it’s a good sound for us,” said Chef Dominique Tougne of Chez Moi and French Quiche, both on Halsted Street in Lincoln Park. That ringing phone is a welcome sound, because Valentine’s Day is bringing orders in numbers Tougne hasn’t seen in a while. “We are at maximum capacity tonight,” Tougne said. This week, ahead of the rush Cupid’s Day would bring, the city changed capacity rules to be either 25 percent or 50 people per room, whichever is lower.
