Where do you eat if you are not at home?

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Slightly related to the «where are people catching it?» thread...

If you are not WFH, where do you eat during the day (or night, I guess).

I caught Covid back in September when I ate lunch with a colleague: masks off, face to face, 20-30 minutes eating and talking together.

Since returning to work I’ve rarely gone to the cantine (we work in a school), and just either skip lunch and eat when I get home (work 8am to 1;30pm) or have a sandwich at my desk.

At our school, the cantines are the weak spot. The children and teachers wear masks all day (France) but they take them off to eat, and there is no way to feed several hundred children each day and have any kind of distancing: it’s just not possible.

I went shopping before Christmas, first time in weeks, and needed something to eat. The only option was to buy a baguette and hang around the street to eat it! Is this what people just do every day? Are work / school cafétérias still open?

I’m a teacher and eat alone at my desk.

I have been eating out but feel increasingly uncomfortable, especially in noisy places. We’re now in lockdown in Scotland but the last time I went into Edinburgh I actually ate my lunch in the car!

A lot of people eat at their desk or in their car.

Sandwich at my desk. The canteen is open but I’m avoiding it.

Teacher here, rather than using the staff room to eat we eat in our classrooms with our teaching assistants. That way we are not in a room with staff that we are not in a bubble with, reduces the risk of infection a little bit. It's a nightmare if it's a wet play though because we are then eating whilst the children are in the classroom so not even a 20 minute break!

I eat in the kitchen. Only one person allowed in at a time so lunch breaks are staggered. Some people eat in their cars or at their work stations.

Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick but why are you worried about where you eat if you've had covid recently? You're unlikely to catch it again?
And I just eat in the normal area for staff to eat in my school. We just spread out a bit. Or at my desk if I'm working. Haven't given it much thought. Covid ripped through our school already, we're an SEN school with constant close contact. If we get it it won't be because of where we ate lunch!

Both my adult sons have been eating lunch in their cars, but now the weather is cold, one is eating at his desk, the other is off at the moment for Christmas but could come home as he works 5 minutes away, but only gets 30 minutes lunch.

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Not worried, just wondering if anyone / anywhere has come up with workable solutions to group eating. As I say it’s the one weak spot in the school day here. Possibly it’s also that I am becoming french: my colleagues mostly still eat en masse in the cantine, albeit they spread out if they can. And my vulnerable colleague who also eats at her desk absolutely hates it!

Apparently we are about to install plexiglass in the children’s cantines at school, so that they can share a table but with plexi btw the ones facing each other.

Covid hasn’t ripped through our school at all so far so it’s probably worth taking some action.

My friend is a teacher in Spain. His school has plexiglass in the canteen and he says they've had low cases.

Sandwich from Tesco or Marks at my desk.

Bring your own lunch? I don't know any teachers that don't. There isn't really time to go out is there.

I don't eat. Our workplace has introduced a "no eating at desks" policy due to Covid and as a non-driver I refuse to sit outside and get cold and wet for the sake of a sandwich. The cafeteria is constantly crowded and you have to book a time to use it. I tried this a few times but inevitably missed or was late for my slot due to something or other cropping up at an awkward time.

The plus side is that by missing one meal every day I am rapidly losing the lockdown weight gain!

Go to Pret and bring it back to office

Or when away get deliveroo to hotel in evenings and eat in room. Key worker hotel restaurants are open for guests but the one I stay in is horrible.

Always eat at desk.

I had a workplace with supermarket in walking distance, so I could buy things like bags of tomatos, humus, feta cheese, olives, grapes... and put them in a mixed salad. Plus Doritos & chocolates. I quite like homemade sandwiches, too. Buying to-go food is very expensive, I can't stomach the cost any more.

We have a hot chocolate/coffee/pastry while out on our obligatory walk to stave off hypothermia and it's on the park bench or standing up in the park.

In our school we have a lunch rota for kids & staff do not everyone is eating at the same time. We've also utilised additional spaces within the school as temp staff rooms so that even when eating staff are still 2m apart.

I bring in lunch and eat in my car but always have because I’m unsociable!