{"id":236,"date":"2020-09-08T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/?p=236"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:18:16","slug":"covid-19-pa-to-allow-50-indoor-dining-capability-effective-9-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/2020\/09\/08\/covid-19-pa-to-allow-50-indoor-dining-capability-effective-9-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: PA to allow 50% indoor dining capability effective 9-21-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier today on September 8, 2020, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that restaurants in Pennsylvania will be allowed to <strong>increase their indoor seating capacity to 50%, effective Sept. 21.<\/strong><br \/><br \/>The 25% indoor restriction has been in place since July, 2020.<br \/><br \/>According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, it is not clear whether Philadelphia County will make the increase to 50% capacity considering it just beginning to reopen indoor dining at 25% on Tuesday following a nearly a six-month closure. <br \/><br \/>To qualify to be able to open at 50% occupancy, <strong>restaurants will be required to self-certify that they comply with all public safety guidelines<\/strong>. The self-certification process is an on line process and will appear in a special database available online. There will also be special branded material, including window clings and other signs, that show certification.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Duane Morris<\/strong> has created a COVID-19 Strategy Team to help organizations plan, respond to and address this fast-moving situation. Contact your Duane Morris attorney for more information. Prior Alerts on the topic are available on the team\u2019s webpage.<\/p>\r\n<p>If you have any questions about this post, please contact <strong>Brad A. Molotsky, Elizabeth Mincer<\/strong> or the attorney in the firm with whom you are regularly in contact.<br \/><br \/>Be well and stay safe.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today on September 8, 2020, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that restaurants in Pennsylvania will be allowed to increase their indoor seating capacity to 50%, effective Sept. 21. The 25% indoor restriction has been in place since July, 2020. According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, it is not clear whether Philadelphia County will make the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/2020\/09\/08\/covid-19-pa-to-allow-50-indoor-dining-capability-effective-9-21-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COVID-19: PA to allow 50% indoor dining capability effective 9-21-2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[424,164,218,379,106],"ppma_author":[519],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-424","tag-elizabeth-mincer","tag-governor-wolf","tag-indoor-dining","tag-pa"],"authors":[{"term_id":519,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/projectdevelopmentinfrastructurep3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}