The other space looks even more out of use, with generic Eataly promotional posters covering its signage and a wall of pallets blocking off part of the counter. Then again, there are still stacks of plates of plates in the corner of the kitchen, so who knows! I'm guessing that this was some sort of fast food/counter-service type of place to go along with the fancier sit-down restaurants, but there isn't much to go off to tell what type of food they served. I'm not sure why I didn't take a picture of the giant circular window, which is completely open to the salesfloor area as you can see on the left side of this picture!
Yeah, those zombie cafes at Fry's were certainly odd. Of course, the whole store was a bit of a zombie that barely looked operational towards the end!
ReplyDeleteI'm really not sure what the deal is here. Maybe (like a lot of stuff in Italy) these are only open during peak tourist season, but Eataly doesn't seem like a place that would rely that heavily on tourists. Or maybe they never came back after COVID, which created a lot of zombie places. There's a food court sort of space that I often cut through on the way to my office, and there was a place in there that I hadn't been able to tell if it was vacant post-COVID or just open limited hours (since I hardly ever walk by during lunch time); something new opened there a few weeks ago, so I guess the former place probably had been closed this whole time without being blocked off or having any of its equipment removed!