NYC has no concrete plan to return indoor dining: de Blasio

Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested Tuesday he s reluctant to restart indoor dining because it s an activity for middle- and upper-income New Yorkers that clashes with his pledge to transform the Big Apple s tale of two cities with progressive policies.

At his daily press briefing, De Blasio was asked why public school students who return to classrooms this fall will eat their lunch inside while restaurants can t reopen indoor dining.

I don t think there s a similarity at all, de Blasio said.

We have an imperative a legal imperative, a moral imperative, an educational imperative to give kids the best education we can. We know that means having at least some time in person, he said.

Versus indoor dining, which is obviously a very optional activity, which some people do a lot who have the resources and others can t do at all because they don t have the resources, he said.

De Blasio s suggestion that eating inside a restaurant is only for people with thick billfolds ignores the thousands of cheap diners, fast-food eateries and pizza joints across the five boroughs catering to cost-conscious New Yorkers.

via nypost.com