";s:4:"text";s:5365:" The buffet closures at popular hotels including Bellagio, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage, Luxor and Excalibur are temporary and will be evaluated on a weekly basis, MGM Resorts said. Because of influenza, norovirus, hepatitis A and other viruses, they spend a lot of time thinking about this in the restaurant industry,” Chapman says. At Infectious disease specialists say there are five major COVID-19 transmission risks associated with eating inside restaurants during the pandemic. After all, those protective plexiglass shields are called "sneeze guards" for a reason.“I do think there are ways to manage buffets safely,” he says. Or is eating in the way to go now? Watch live streams from beach webcams all around the Sunshine State. There is currently no evidence to support the transmission of the virus through the consumption food, according to both the Digging into fish fears, the concern with sushi is that like revenge, it’s a dish best served cold. "But it’s still good to take precautions when dining out. Now, he's working from home and he's stopped going to restaurants or ordering in food, opting instead for prepared meals.“I’m trying to minimize my contact with other people,” said Sanger, a keyboardist who shops for groceries at Walmart in the wee hours to avoid crowds and has stopped meeting up with friends or practicing with his band.Aleka Gürel says she was already an avid home cook but is using the recommendation from public health officials to practice social distancing “as an excuse to stay in and cook more.”Gürel, who lives in San Francisco and works at HealthSherpa, an online broker authorized to sell Affordable Care Act plans, stocked up on dry beans, lentils and chickpeas and pulled together her favorite recipes that rely on pantry staples which she shared in a blog post on “home cooking in the time of coronavirus.”“I hope it encourages people without much cooking experience to try new things, especially if they have to self-quarantine and are stuck home for a long time,” Gürel says.Tabitha Banks, 49, an investment operations analyst from Atlanta, decided to stop eating out Wednesday after reading reports that a Waffle House employee and a Walmart employee had tested positive for the coronavirus. In fact, I personally ordered from The authorities don’t directly answer this question.