‘A Light in the Night, Reopening & Operating Nightlife Venues in the Time of Covid-19’ is a guide for small nightlife venues in New York reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, and is available for free to support the industry.
This guide is for small venues struggling with challenges of reduced capacity, higher costs and reduced foot traffic in a new landscape. There is so much useful reopening information circulating currently, but precious little of it is geared towards lounges and boutique nightlife. It can be overwhelming. This guide is a synthesis of the available data and best practices from large operators, seated/ticketed venues and restaurants for use by independent operators with an eye towards boutique nightlife. In addition to collating this data, people behind the guide spoke with professionals across the full spectrum of nightlife, including those in the fields of public health and risk analysis, ADA/Disability access compliance, technology solutions, talent buying, agency work, and marketing. Resources from around the globe have been party to this document and it’s our hope that it will be useful for starting a dialogue in most markets.
The intention is to offer independents some support and a place to start. It is not a checklist. Rather, it’s our hope that this is the beginning of a global conversation about the value and importance of small, local nightlife and how to keep it alive.
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