BOSTON (WHDH) - Beginning Monday, more venues in Massachusetts will be able to reopen as the state enters Phase 3 Step 2 of its reopening plan.
The reopening will allow for indoor performance and recreational centers to open up and raises capacity limits to 50 percent.
Although capacity limits in restaurants will be lifted, tables will still have to be placed six feet apart and a 90-minute time limit will continue to be enforced for customers.
Restaurants will also continue to limit groups to no more than six per table.
The relaxed restriction are sitting well with some restaurant owners.
“It’s fine, we have to be able to accommodate as many people as possible. The restaurants have really been hit hard,” local restaurant owner Adriana DeStefano said.
“I love it. It’s a step in the right direction,” Arya Trattoria owner Massimo Tiberi said.
The Baker administration is also making another round of relief grants available to more than 1,100 small businesses in the state.
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