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PLYMOUTH, Mich. – As restaurants work to stay afloat amid a COVID-19 three-week pause that restricted indoor dining, another concern is winter weather affecting outdoor dining. But Plymouth is extending outdoor dining and even chipping in some carryout parking lots. “Just trying to do whatever we can to keep our doors open but (also) our patio open,” said John Thompson with The Post Local Bistro. Go buy some long johns and bring your own blanket if they don’t have them.”So far, it’s been just enough to keep the Post and others in Plymouth open, and owners are thankful. “This industry is hanging on by a thread,” Rosalie Vicari said.

UPDATE: Andiamo owner backtracks: ‘We have never and will never defy mandated orders’“This industry is hanging on by a thread,” Rosalie Vicari said. Rosalie and her husband Joe Vicari own the Vicari restaurant group, with high-end restaurants like Joe Muer Seafood, Brownies On The Lake and multiple Andiamo Italian restaurants. Their new letter called on Metro Detroit restaurants to band together at a meeting this week. Restaurants said the order to close dining rooms is unconstitutional and not supported by science. Yet, restaurants are closed and we just don’t understand that,” Rosalie Vicari said.