Open Post: Hosted By The Wax Figure Seat Fillers At Peter Luger Steak House

As restaurants in New York are gradually permitted to open up reduced-capacity indoor dining while still respecting COVID-19 social-distancing protocols, creative solutions are bubbling up in order to make the dining rooms feel more inviting for the customers desperate to escape their 340th straight night of microwave burritos and leftover Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. During the past few months, we’ve learned that restaurants have used stuffed pandas, mannequins, and blow-up dolls to fill seats for the benefit of passersby and diners who longed for a sense of a vibrant social scene once again.

Some seat fillers are especially lifelike (yesterday’s carpool dummy) and some are beloved but not quite as realistic as our passenger-seat friend. Peter Luger Steak House in Brooklyn, NY, rose to the occasion of 35%-capacity indoor dining by teaming up with Madame Tussauds to temporarily fill the open tables with glamorous Hollywood wax figures.

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