PHOTOS: Metro Atlanta restaurants reopen April 27

State Rep. Kasey Carpenter at Cherokee Brewing and Pizza Company in Dalton, one of two restaurants he owns.

Restaurants enter a new world.

Restaurants enter a new world.

Restaurants enter a new world.

Owner Harry Decker sorts through signs on Saturday, April 25, 2020, for social distancing efforts as restaurant staff prepare to reopen the restaurant at Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar in Decatur. Gov. Brian Kemp announced that movie theaters and restaurant dining rooms can reopen Monday, April 27, following guidelines. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com).

Restaurants enter a new world.

In downtown Lilburn, 1910 Public House restaurant server/bartender Greg Thompson prepares a curbside pickup of a customer order: a meal and grocery staples such as toilet paper. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

1910 Public House owners Jennifer (left) and Tony Tiberia pose for a photo inside their restaurant in downtown Lilburn. They’ve had to keep shifting the business to deal with the pandemic and metro Atlantans’ concerns about public gatherings. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

1910 Public House server/bartender Greg Thompson hands a customer a menu for curbside ordering at the restaurant in downtown Lilburn. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

A hostess meets customers outside of Roaster’s on Lenox Road. Customers must wait outside before the hostess escorts them to their seats. A threading salon next door sports a large “Now Open” sign. Across the parking lot in the same development, new bakery and coffee shop Garnet Gal’s remains open for takeout and delivery only. CONTRIBUTED BY HENRI HOLLIS

A customer who had been waiting on the patio enters the dining room at Moe's Original BBQ. CONTRIBUTED BY HENRI HOLLIS

Rocky Mountain Pizza opened for dine-in service on April 27. A man wearing a cloth mask sat at the bar around lunchtime, visible through the restaurant's open front door. CONTRIBUTED BY HENRI HOLLIS

1920 Tavern employee Shane Goode (R) delivers drinks to Bart Van Linden and his mother, Sabine Van Linden, at the Roswell restaurant Monday, April 27, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC

1920 Tavern Owner Jenna Aronowitz takes the temperature of bartender Shane Goode before the Roswell restaurant opens for sit down meals Monday, April 27, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC

April 27, 2020 Brookhaven: Waffle House's Miss D (left) serves Daniel Bahena and his guest (right) on Monday, April 27, 2020 at The Waffle House at 2886 Clairmont Road in Brookhaven. Restaurants around metro Atlanta began to reopen dining rooms Monday, April 27, 2020 as restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic are lifted. Restaurants will be allowed to operate with in-person dining as long as they follow a set of 39 guidelines laid out by the state government, which include a requirement that all employees wear masks, a maximum of 10 customers per 500 square feet of floor space and a maximum of six diners per table. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

Waffle House's Tiffany, right, get To Go orders ready as a seated guest enjoys his meal on Monday, April 27, 2020, at The Waffle House in Brookhaven, Ga. Restaurants around metro Atlanta began to reopen dining rooms as restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic are lifted.

Waffle House opens as ‘new restaurant world’ begins today at Glenwood location in Atlanta.

C&S Seafood and Oyster Bar in Vinings is open Monday, April 27, 2020, for seated dining allowing a maximum group of six people including Melody and Joe Thomas, Melody's daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. The group was seated with at least one empty table between them and the next customers. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Daniel Parsons makes cocktails behind the bar at C&S Seafood and Oyster Bar in Vinings is open Monday, April 27, 2020, where guests are allowed to sit inside and at the bar with new rules and regulations for staff, table settings, specific spacing requirements and maximum groups of six people. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

C&S Seafood and Oyster Bar in Vinings is open Monday, April 27, 2020, where Hamid Azhari, left seated, pours himself a second class of wine and Sade Johnson, standing, takes the groups' orders. Restaurants can now open for seated dining and at the bar with new rules and regulations for staff, table settings, specific spacing requirements and maximum groups of six people. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Freddie Johnson serves a bottle of wine to his table at C&S Seafood and Oyster Bar in Vinings on Monday, April 27, 2020. The restaurant is open for seated dining on the patio, at inside tables and at the bar with new rules and regulations for staff, table settings, specific spacing requirements and maximum groups of six people. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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State Rep. Kasey Carpenter at Cherokee Brewing and Pizza Company in Dalton, one of two restaurants he owns.

By Henri Hollis

April 28, 2020

On April 27, Gov. Brian Kemp lifted restrictions on in-person dining at Georgia restaurants. AJC photographers captured the scene at some metro Atlanta restaurants that took their first steps into a new way of eating out.

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