German style blockade coffee: Each person is given a swimming cap with a foam swimming float to comply with the social spacing

Recently, a coffee shop in Germany held a reopening ceremony for customers after a temporary shutdown due to a pandemic. Remarkably, this place has given each guest a “spacing hat” to keep everyone apart.

Last week, coffee shop owners in Schwerin, a city in northern Germany, were allowed to resume business after the season-long blockade was lifted. While people began to meet each other and enjoy the outdoors, the cafes still operate under the motto of keeping social distance.

Instead of marking a spot on the floor for people to be as far apart as many other places, the owner gave each guest a hat with two colorful foam swimming buoys attached to it.

Whether wearing a hat or not, the guests follow the rules of social spacing.

To celebrate this unforgettable event, the owner Jaqueline Rothe posted a picture of her customer sitting together chatting with a new unique top hat on the shop’s Facebook page and received a lot of support from residents. netizens.

Sharing with CNN, the 52-year-old female owner said that after the restriction order was lifted, many people flocked to cafes and bars to enjoy their favorite food and drink in the sun. brilliant sun. She was quite surprised when the picture she posted on Facebook attracted so much attention.

Jaqueline told a local TV channel, “This is the perfect way for people to keep their distance from each other. It also looks interesting! Our customers are all excited about this idea. But However, it also shows how difficult it is to keep a distance of 1.5 meters in other activities, when not wearing the interval hat. ”

According to Jaqueline, cafes or candy shops usually have about 36 tables inside and 20 tables outside during warm weather. However, with the new rules on social spacing, her shop has reduced the number to 12 tables inside and 8 tables outside. In the past, when there was no outbreak, the tables were usually only 80 cm apart.

During the blockade, some cafes were still open, but only to serve orders to take away but not to welcome customers as before. And at the present time, most of the restaurants that have been reopened are serving only half the number of seats previously.

Jaqueline expressed: “We expect the epidemic situation to decline and Germany to open more and more people to travel. As such, we can welcome more visitors and have more businesses.” thu “.

Germany lifted a number of restrictions after Chancellor Merkel said it had escaped the first phase of the pandemic. However, she warns Germany there is a risk of a sudden spike in new cases if people stop adhering to social separation measures.

According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, as of May 17, the world has recorded more than 4.6 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 and more than 312,000 deaths. In particular, Germany has more than 176,000 people infected and nearly 8,000 deaths.