Is It Safe to Eat at Restaurants During the Coronavirus Pandemic? | Eater

"A self-serve hot food station where customers handle shared serving utensils; experts advise avoiding this type of setup during outbreaks because utensils may be touched by many people and coronaviruses can survive on surfaces for hours or days. Having staff serve food instead reduces the number of people touching utensils, and the close proximity common at busy self-serve stations increases risk of respiratory-droplet transmission. If encountering this setting is unavoidable, rigorous hand hygiene before eating and after touching shared surfaces is essential." - Jenny G. Zhang