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title: "5 Factors That Can Affect A Restaurant’s Reopening"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/72a36c9f-2c59-4ee9-8662-05bdc47a63e1
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/capitalspring/5-factors-that-can-affect-a-restaurants-reopening-2714016
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2020-10-06T01:20:04.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T01:16:44.277Z
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# 5 Factors That Can Affect A Restaurant’s Reopening

**TL;DR:** Jim Balis, Managing Director of Strategic Operations for CapitalSpring, identified five factors affecting restaurant reopenings, including local guidelines and capacity limits. Restaurant operators must adapt to new guidelines such as social distancing and wearing personal protective equipment.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2020-10-06. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/capitalspring/5-factors-that-can-affect-a-restaurants-reopening-2714016).*

## Story

As states continue to reopen dining rooms and adapt to outdoor seating, restaurant operators and staff must learn to work around new guidelines such as social distancing tables and wearing personal protective equipment.

Jim Balis, Managing Director of Strategic Operations for CapitalSpring , guest-authored an article for FSR Magazine about the five factors that can affect a restaurant’s reopening during COVID-19.

According to Balis, those five factors are:

- Restaurants may not open at full capacity based on local guidelines.

- An open restaurant could signal the end of rent concessions.

- Operators might need to shift employee schedules in order to limit contact.

- Restaurant operators should market their reopenings very carefully if they are unprepared for a flood of business.

- Contactless experiences are here to stay.

Read about how restaurants can strategize to contend with and leverage each of those factors at fsrmagazine.com .

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Capital Spring (investor)
- restaurant reopening (topic)
- Jim Balis (person)
- covid-19 guidelines (topic)
- employee scheduling (topic)
- capacity limits (topic)
- contactless experiences (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/capitalspring/5-factors-that-can-affect-a-restaurants-reopening-2714016). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/72a36c9f-2c59-4ee9-8662-05bdc47a63e1).