Comet Ping Pong Tries to Survive With Takeout Only Service

WASHINGTON, DC- APRIL 22: A busy Erica Mendoza takes to go orders from the staging area inside to the outside of the restaurant where customers are waiting to get their order to pick up at the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington, D.C. on April 22, 2020. Comet Ping Pong is a sit-down pizza restaurant which would normally have a very busy dining room. The owner James Alefantis has had to gear his restaurant to be safe in the Coronavirus era and become a takeout only establishment. He is trying to strike a balance between upbeat and appropriately somber in the design of the place which is now takeout only. Alefantis has rearranged continuously to meet health guidelines and maximize efficiency by using the ping pong themed tables where folks once dined as staging area to get the orders out efficiently. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)