Eating out with more than 2 households

[Jungfraujoch]

Specifically in a restaurant - what is your experience where you live? Are people doing this, going against the Gov guidelines? How can restaurants police it anyway?

To confirm I’m not doing this but wonder if I’m being over cautious now as people seem to be doing it anyway and going away for a weekend in a group made up of different households.

Yes it would seem a bit weird to only socialise with the exact same person/people you've been stuck inside with all this time only. Not much point in that.

Never been asked by any bar or restaurant whether our party was more than two households, even when we have had 8 people present (it was actually two households but wouldn't have been obvious on sight.)

I know many people are sitting in bars and restaurants in multiple household groups of 6 and not being asked, even when indoors.

It definitely isn't being policed from what I can gather.

It seems a bit daft in someways now though as officially if I go out for dinner I can only sit with people from one other household. However at work the staff sit in one room - albeit currently a large hall - for lunch, so today there were more than a dozen adults sat eating lunch together indoors, all from different households. It's really tricky to remain more than a metre away from one another in many areas of school, let alone 2m.

I am still working at home as is DH so maybe I have a different perspective.

We went to a pub in 3/4 households and they just put us on two tables next to each other

Friends of mine went to an Indian the other day and they were from 11 households. No questions asked

I've declined a family invitation to a restaurant with around 15 people from at least 7 households.

We are in an area with local restrictions and I think it's irresponsible tbh.

It felt like there was a lot of tentative joy coming out of lockdown when we could all visit family outdoors in small numbers again, even distanced, but people taking the piss with large gatherings, and I've also seen people on fb encouraging others to give fake details for test and trace or to block the number test and trace use to contact, I think it'll ruin it for everyone else and is selfish and unfair to the vulnerable in society.

I've been told by my sister that some of the members going to the restaurant apparently feel sorry for me and knew I wouldn't come because I'm apparently 'not leaving the house these days' . If not leaving the house means sticking to small distanced outdoor only then ok!!

@Namara

I've declined a family invitation to a restaurant with around 15 people from at least 7 households.

We are in an area with local restrictions and I think it's irresponsible tbh.

It felt like there was a lot of tentative joy coming out of lockdown when we could all visit family outdoors in small numbers again, even distanced, but people taking the piss with large gatherings, and I've also seen people on fb encouraging others to give fake details for test and trace or to block the number test and trace use to contact, I think it'll ruin it for everyone else and is selfish and unfair to the vulnerable in society.

I've been told by my sister that some of the members going to the restaurant apparently feel sorry for me and knew I wouldn't come because I'm apparently 'not leaving the house these days' . If not leaving the house means sticking to small distanced outdoor only then ok!!

It annoys me when people use these dichotomies (in order to avoid having a sensible conversation about the middle ground). Either people are cracking on a normal or only going shopping for essentials

People will feel the heat if the local lockdown restrictions start to hit small business and to threaten people’s liveholidays. There’s no point in handwringing then.

Livelihoods*

I don’t know what a live holiday is, don’t think I’d want one!