We had dinner at Boma tonight (Saturday 8/21). It was pretty much "business as usual," with some of our Boma favorites. There was salmon, ribs, chicken, and some cut of beef (it was VERY good), olive oil potatoes (delicious), a sort of corn-shuffle, four soups (butternut squash, lamb curry, seafood stew, and chicken sweet potato chowder), quite a few salads/cold offerings (I didn't actually get that far, but DD had several options on her plate), rolls, etc. Desserts included bread pudding, cookies, mini cupcakes, zebra domes, and four or five different pastries. The food was VERY good. There weren't many patrons- I bet it was less than half-full, and they spaced out the parties. I think the people closest to us were probably 12 feet away (?). There were hand sanitizing stations set up, too. It seemed very much like the Boma of old, with one exception: None of the employees that I could see were from any of the African countries. I suppose this makes sense, given the restrictions on flying and entering the US, but it was still a surprise. All in all, I didn't feel like my life was endangered, although we did use hand sanitizer every time we came back from the buffet line. I also saw one table that had disposable gloves; they seemed to have a glove on what I'd guess was their "serving" hand and would strip the glove off so it was inside out, so the "exposed" part of the glove was inside itself.
I asked about the soup rotation but the server said that they don't have an actual rotation set up yet- the schedule is only set up for about 2 weeks at a time so he had no idea with the actual rotation will be. I guess they are taking it a day at a time, pretty much. I will say- EVERYONE seemed really happy to be there!
Not when there are so many alternatives available.
