Here’s our plan to open legally and safely. Although the state hasn’t announced guidelines, we’ve spent considerable resource to prepare. We’ll be finished soon, and we’ll continue to refine and improve:

Use fences, spray paint, tape and signs to create six foot distance markers for all customer lines to restrooms, food, and beverage

Ask every employee to check their temperature and to avoid the property if they’ve been sick or if they’ve traveled out of state the last sixty days

Give every employee a mask and gloves

Sanitize all facilities

Clean the entire sixteen acres

Remove butter, sugar, and condiment dispensers, which customers used to get themselves, and replacing all of this with service by staff and individual packets

Cover all food including popcorn

Tickets can be purchased online or at the box office

Food can be purchased on an app and picked up on a table outside Judi’s Snack Bar

Only a few customers will be allowed inside Judi’s Snack Bar at any time, separated by bright red six feet distance markers, signs, and stanchions

Keep in mind, we’re a takeout food operation, there’s no indoor dining

We’ll continue to accept cash for tickets, food, and beverage as required by law and done at nearly every restaurant and retail business

Close every picnic table

Block off every other restroom facility (which already have physical barriers between them)

Increase cleaning and sanitizing of restrooms

Provide hand sanitizer for employees and customers

Announcements over the loud speaker system and on the two giant movie screens will remind everyone to maintain distancing

The drive-in is as safe as any restaurant takeout operation and safer than a Walmart, Target, Home Depot, or highway rest stop. A customer can choose to remain inside the vehicle the entire time, and we have much more space per person than almost any other business.

We’ll open for takeout only this Wednesday to Saturday 5 to 7pm, just like any clam shack or ice cream stand, as we seek to perfect our new operation.

We all have the necessary permits to serve takeout food, beverage, and bottles of wine to go.

If government declares it legal and safe, we’ll open for movies May 18, if not, as soon as we’re allowed.

Drive-ins of NH, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and several other states are open or open soon, and we congratulate them for providing safe, affordable family-friendly entertainment.

Our kids have no school, sports, parks, or  pools.  They are not allowed to play golf or go to the supermarket.   Our kids are suffering physically and emotionally.   Lets get open and provide some long overdue smiles

Please direct any questions about when we can open to your state rep, state senator, of the Governor’s office, as we can’t answer.

Yours in flicks, food, and fun
Dave Andelman
President and Owner
Mendon Twin Drive-In
America’s Most Beloved Drive-In