PATIO PATRONS EATING UP CURBSIDE FOOD SERVICE

GRAVENHURST — Pushed by the pandemic, businesses are finally taking it to the streets.

Years after customers have called for curbside service, more merchants are reaching out to the public.

And it’s service with a smile.

If you could see behind the servers’ masks — you’d see a big grin.

Street meat has new meaning on the menu.

This week it was hot enough to fry an egg on the pavement to go along with sizzling breakfast bacon at the Bethune Bistro in Gravenhurst.

Owner Bei Bei was popping in an out of the kitchen serving three tables to the delight of downtown diners.

It’s the same across Muskoka, where new patios have popped up or expanded their inside offerings outdoors as provincial law now requires only.

Business seems brisk for many of them as they wait on willing patio patrons.