Arnold Schwarzenegger tweeted a video of himself on March 15 saying: “No more restaurants.” Seated in his palatial kitchen with two miniature horses, Whiskey and Lulu, beside him, the former California governor pronounced: “We don’t go out, we don’t go to restaurants. We don’t do anything like that any more.”
The immediate prompt for the video was, of course, the coronavirus pandemic, spread most easily by human-to-human contact. As a public health measure, mayors of New York, Seattle, Denver and many other cities and states have ordered restaurants to switch to delivery and pickup service only.
Celebrity chefs David Chang and José Andrés were fast to close up shop. Starbucks no longer allows access to seating.
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