Collected Item: “Friday night out during Covid”
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Friday night out during Covid
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Video Recording, Tempe AZ
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I am a server at a Chili's in Tempe Arizona. Covid has changed many things about my day to day life and work. The restaurant scene has changed a lot as well. This recording was from the restaurant on a Friday night about 30 minutes before closing at midnight. Pre-Covid I would be cleaning tables and finishing up some cleaning to get out of there but as you can hear, the place was still buzzing. Since Covid began numerous bars and late night establishments have closed and thus Chili's a relatively safe chain restaurant that was able to withstand closure has taken some of that business in Tempe. Peoples normal dining cycles seem to have also changed a bit and becoming more random. Normal lunch and dinner times matter less when everyone is working from home and night outs with friends are more rare.
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#Friday, #Covid, #Chilis, #ArizonaStateUniversity, #HST643, #SensoryHistory
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Tim Roschmann
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2020-10-16T23:30