Waffling on indoor dining hard to stomach

Gov. Cuomo’s administration is refusing to give specific guidelines for when indoor dining can resume in New York City — leaving industry representatives and business owners starving for answers.

A rep for Cuomo spoke only in generalities Wednesday when asked what the plan was to help the city’s struggling dining industry get back inside during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — such as a specific benchmark in the number of cases.

“We are looking to see what’s happening in other states. We are looking at our own numbers and will see what’s going on in other states before we make any other decisions on other areas that have not been reopened yet,” Cuomo senior adviser Rich Azzopardi told The Post.

But that is too vague an answer for some business owners in the city, which is being forced by state officials to allow only outdoor dining while the rest of the state has already been approved for indoor service.

“It’s been one month since indoor dining in New York City was postponed. Yet we’ve met metrics allowing restaurants throughout the rest of the state to reopen indoors and our government leaders have not provided any guidance to small businesses,” said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the NYC Hospitality Alliance. “The whole situation is absolutely devastating.”

State Sen. Diane Savino (D-Staten Island/Brooklyn) also griped: “The state should issue guidance the way they do in the other counties where we’ve seen indoor dining in other parts of the state. Weshouldbeabletodothesame thing in the city.”