EditorialA restaurant staff member takes a moment to rest their feet inside Katz's Delicatessen in New York on Sept. 10, 2022. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
EditorialA restaurant staff member takes a moment to rest their feet inside Katz's Delicatessen in New York on Sept. 10, 2022. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
EditorialLauren Jackson wears a face mask while sitting inside a Starbucks in New York on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)
EditorialCircle City Sweets, which uses a turquoise shipping container for kitchen operations, inside the AMP food hall in Indianapolis on April 16, 2021. (Stacy Able/The New York Times)
EditorialA bar inside Fulton Market Kitchen in Chicago, where cook Jeff Danaher was laid off just five weeks after landing a job when Illinois reinstated restrictions on indoor dining, Dec. 7, 2020. (Sebastian Hidalgo/The New York Times)
EditorialLucho Lopez, 23, a bus boy, sets a table inside Arepa Lady in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, on Sept. 30, 2020. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialAttendees, most without face masks, wait for President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Henderson, Nev., Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)