New York City Restaurant Uses Wax Models For Social Distancing

The famous Peter Lugar Steakhouse located in Brooklyn, New York, is borrowing wax models from the famous Madame Tussauds wax museum to promote social distancing.

From Yahoo Entertainment:

The famed steakhouse, a Brooklyn institution since 1887, has announced that it will be using celebrity wax figures on loan from Madame Tussauds to keep indoor diners safely spaced out in its restaurant amid the pandemic. Effective Friday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will allow New York City restaurants to have a 35-percent occupancy, paving the way for Peter Luger’s original Williamsburg location to roll out the red carpet to some A-list clientele in hopes of filling empty seats and providing a buffer between actual human guests.

The wax figures chosen represent some connection to New York City, either real or fictional. Audrey Hepburn’s Manhattan party girl Holly Golightly leans over a bread basket at her table, while Jon Hamm (aka Mad Men’s Don Draper) holds court with a cocktail at the bar. Two Rockefeller Plaza fixtures — Today’s Al Roker and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon — are also featured. The former stands at the staircase directing diners upstairs, while Fallon patiently sits at a table, waiting to pay his bill.

The Madame Tussauds figures will be on display until Monday, March 1.

The restaurant industry is vital to New York City’s economy, and it’s been particularly hard hit this past year. We’re excited to welcome diners back indoors at 35 percent, and thought this would be a fun, safe way to fill some of the seats that need to remain empty as we continue to fight the pandemic. It has been wonderful working with the fabulous team at Madame Tussauds New York.
Daniel Turtel. Vice President of Peter Lugar

Peter Luger — which has a second location in Great Neck, Long Island — isn’t the first restaurant to use inanimate figures as a social distancing measure. Last year the Inn at Little Washington in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains made headlines for using mannequins styled in 1940s attire to pad out its sparsely populated dining room.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 24: Madame Tussauds Al Roker wax figure joins diners at Peter Luger Steak House to help with social distancing amid the Coronavirus pandemic on February 24, 2021 in New York City. Indoor dining capacity at restaurants in New York City will increase to 35% starting Friday, February 26th. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)

AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[10] The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. [11] There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. [12] In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isaiah 24:10-12

The lost world never ceases to amaze me sometimes. Truthfully I am rarely surprised anymore, but this is still creepy nonetheless.

Isn’t it ironic? The manakins have more freedoms than the people: they are smiling and don’t have to wear face masks.

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