At Vincenti Restaurant in Brentwood, they had to make rapid and impactful changes in order to adjust to the Covid-19 new reality. And if, in time of a pandemic, wearing a mask, a face shield, and setting up tables at the right social-distance have been pretty much a no-brainer, some other aspects of ournew-normal life have hit at more deeper level.

“Benvenuta!” Maureen Vincenti tells me in a perfect Italian as she welcomes me inside her elegant restaurant, located on the strip of San Vicente Blvd, in one of the wealthiest neighborhood of Los Angeles. “Running a restaurant is a whole new different experience now.”