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<p>Spain is playing with new ways to counter the direct implications of COVID-19.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Public places like restaurants and malls remain at the highest risk of enabling coronavirus infection and causing new clusters to create.</p>

<p>A Spanish restaurant just came up with the perfect fix. The restaurant has come up with new ways to minimise contact among waiters and staff, which will effectively reduce the risk of coronavirus infections.</p>

<p><strong>All about the funk!</strong></p>

<p>Located in the country's northeastern Mediterranean coast, the the restaurant, called "Funky Pizza" has come up with a mobile application called "Funky Pay", which has been integrated in the restaurant's ordering system.</p>

<p>This means your server will no longer need to physically engage with you at all.</p>

<h6><img alt="An employee using the &quot;Funky Pay&quot; app informs clients that their order is ready, at Funky Pizza restaurant, where the app replaces waiters, in Palafrugell, near Girona, Costa Brava, Spain July 31, 2020" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="610559bf-c9bb-45d1-b327-02924e2354cf" src="//cdn.wionews.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/Untitled%20design-5_10.jpg" /><br />
<em>An employee using the "Funky Pay" app informs clients that their order is ready, at Funky Pizza restaurant, where the app replaces waiters, in Palafrugell, near Girona, Costa Brava, Spain July 31, 2020. | Reuters</em></h6>

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The restaurant, situated in Palafrugell in Costa Brava is very popular with tourists. The best part of this move, is perhaps that the waiter does not bring the food to your table. The app has been specifically designed to cater to social distancing needs given the trying times.</p>

<p>"Through this system we have tried to keep physical distance with our clients, which is what people are looking for during COVID," restaurant owner Carlos Manich told Reuters.</p>

<p><strong>Literally zero contact!</strong></p>

<p>To make management of orders easier, the staff tracks the orders through screens behind the bar. Coronavirus has changed life for all of us, and this restaurant is no different - it has become table service only, and has made it mandatory for people to wear face masks at all times when away from tables.</p>

<h6><img alt="Employees pick up the pizzas near an IPad with the &quot;Funky Pay&quot; app, which helps tracking orders of clients and where, with a system of colours, clients can see when it is in the kitchen or when it will be arriving, at Funky Pizza restaurant, where the app replaces waiters, in Palafrugell, near Girona, Costa Brava, Spain July 31, 2020" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="df80ac36-fe7f-478e-b896-524964429253" src="//cdn.wionews.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/Untitled%20design-6_9.jpg" /><br />
<em>Employees pick up the pizzas near an IPad with the "Funky Pay" app, which helps tracking orders of clients and where, with a system of colours, clients can see when it is in the kitchen or when it will be arriving, at Funky Pizza restaurant, where the app replaces waiters, in Palafrugell, near Girona, Costa Brava, Spain July 31, 2020. | Reuters</em><br />
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<p>"The application is very user-friendly ... and you can also track your order and see when it is in the kitchen or when it will be arriving," Claudia Medina, 26, who was eating at the restaurant told Reuters.</p>

<p>Of course, not everyone agreed.&nbsp;"I think we lose the feeling with the waiter, for example when you order you can't ask about different preferences or quantities," said another patron&nbsp;Javier Comas, 26.</p>


Spain is playing with new ways to counter the direct implications of COVID-19. Public places like restaurants and malls remain at the highest risk of enabling coronavirus infection and causing new clusters to create.

Spain is playing with new ways to counter the direct implications of COVID-19. Public places like restaurants and malls remain at the highest risk of enabling coronavirus infection and causing new clusters to create. A Spanish restaurant just came up with the perfect fix. The restaurant has come up with new ways to minimise contact among waiters and staff, which will effectively reduce the risk of coronavirus infections. All about the funk! Located in the country's northeastern Mediterranean coast, the the restaurant, called "Funky Pizza" has come up with a mobile application called "Funky Pay", which has been integrated in the restaurant's ordering system. This means your server will no longer need to physically engage with you at all. An employee using the "Funky Pay" app informs clients that their order is ready, at Funky Pizza restaurant, where the app replaces waiters, in Palafrugell, near Girona, Costa Brava, Spain July 31, 2020. | Reuters The restaurant, situated in Palafrugell in Costa Brava is very popular with tourists. The best part of this move, is perhaps that the waiter does not bring the food to your table. The app has been specifically designed to cater to social distancing needs given the trying times. "Through this system we have tried to keep physical distance with our clients, which is what people are looking for during COVID," restaurant owner Carlos Manich told Reuters. Literally zero contact! To make management of orders easier, the staff tracks the orders through screens behind the bar. Coronavirus has changed life for all of us, and this restaurant is no different - it has become table service only, and has made it mandatory for people to wear face masks at all times when away from tables. Employees pick up the pizzas near an IPad with the "Funky Pay" app, which helps tracking orders of clients and where, with a system of colours, clients can see when it is in the kitchen or when it will be arriving, at Funky Pizza restaurant, where the app replaces waiters, in Palafrugell, near Girona, Costa Brava, Spain July 31, 2020. | Reuters "The application is very user-friendly ... and you can also track your order and see when it is in the kitchen or when it will be arriving," Claudia Medina, 26, who was eating at the restaurant told Reuters. Of course, not everyone agreed. "I think we lose the feeling with the waiter, for example when you order you can't ask about different preferences or quantities," said another patron Javier Comas, 26.

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<p>A man&nbsp;was arrested&nbsp;Sunday after entering a pizzeria armed with an assault rifle, which he&nbsp;pointed&nbsp;at an employee and discharged&nbsp;inside the restaurant, DC police told&nbsp;the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/12/04/d-c-police-respond-to-report-of-a-man-with-a-gun-at-comet-ping-pong-restaurant/?postshare=3661480901316460&amp;tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.068d9703213b">Washington Post</a>.</p>

<p>Police say&nbsp;28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch, a local of&nbsp;Salisbury North Carolina,&nbsp;came&nbsp;to &quot;self-investigate&quot; the repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory&nbsp;known as &quot;pizzagate&quot;.</p>

<p>Nobody was injured in the incident, but in all the panic several businesses went into lockdown as police swarmed the neighbourhood at around 3 pm, the Washington Post reported.</p>

<p>The police say that Welch has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, the Washington Post reports.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">DC police: Comet Ping Pong suspect is Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury, NC who said he came to investigate &quot;pizzagate.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wbW9BMBBG3">pic.twitter.com/wbW9BMBBG3</a></p>
&mdash; Byron Tau (@ByronTau) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronTau/status/805590075769815041">December 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p><strong>&quot;Pizzagate&quot;</strong></p>

<p>The 2016 US election saw a burst of fake news stories. In one, high-ranking memebers of the Democratic Party&nbsp;were involved in a pedophilia ring that operated out of the basement of Comet Ping Pong, a family-friendly pizza restaurant in&nbsp;Washington DC.</p>

<p>One Comet Ping Pong&nbsp;employee speculated that Welch was looking for the so-called underground tunnels, where alt-right and pro-Trump conspiracy theorists on 4chan and Reddit expressed belief that the Democrats tortured children, the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/04/fake-news-delivers-real-gunman-to-pizzeria-caught-up-in-alt-right-fake-news.html">Daily Beast </a>reports.</p>

<p>The conspiracy seized on John Podesta&#39;s leaked emails which apparently contained a &quot;pizza theme&quot;, which was taken to be a secret code with private meanings.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Since the election, the restaurant&#39;s owner has received hate mail and death threats via text, social media and Facebook, reports the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this-pizzeria-is-not-a-child-trafficking-site.html?_r=1">New York Times</a>. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Employees have had to quit the Comet Ping Pong in fear after their&nbsp;personal information was shared online, the Daily Beast reports. Reddit has since closed those groups, as per their policy of not sharing private information.</p>

<p>The fake news was sufficiently high-profile in early November that retired General Michael Flyyn, who Donald Trump has since selected to be his national security adviser,&nbsp;shared it on Twitter, asking readers to judge its veractiy for themselves.&nbsp;</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">U decide - NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc...MUST READ! <a href="https://t.co/O0bVJT3QDr">https://t.co/O0bVJT3QDr</a></p>
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<p>Articles appeared on Facebook and on sites like The New Nationalist and The Vigilant Citizen, which ran headlines like, &quot;Pizzagate: How 4Chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washington&#39;s Occult Elite&quot;, the New York Times reported.</p>

<p>Various news outlets debunked the claim that an occult sex ring was operated by&nbsp;Clinton and other Democrats out of the&nbsp;pizzeria basement.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The owner, James Alefantis, told&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38156985">BBC </a>Trending that the accusation is&nbsp;impossible&nbsp;for a very basic reason: &quot;We don&#39;t even have a basement.&quot;</p>

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Online conspiracies and fake news stories claimed Democrats ran a paedophilia ring and tortured children in the Comet Ping Pong basement

A man was arrested Sunday after entering a pizzeria armed with an assault rifle, which he pointed at an employee and discharged inside the restaurant, DC police told the Washington Post. Police say 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch, a local of Salisbury North Carolina, came to "self-investigate" the repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory known as "pizzagate". Nobody was injured in the incident, but in all the panic several businesses went into lockdown as police swarmed the neighbourhood at around 3 pm, the Washington Post reported. The police say that Welch has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, the Washington Post reports. DC police: Comet Ping Pong suspect is Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury, NC who said he came to investigate "pizzagate." pic.twitter.com/wbW9BMBBG3 — Byron Tau (@ByronTau) December 5, 2016 × "Pizzagate" The 2016 US election saw a burst of fake news stories. In one, high-ranking memebers of the Democratic Party were involved in a pedophilia ring that operated out of the basement of Comet Ping Pong, a family-friendly pizza restaurant in Washington DC. One Comet Ping Pong employee speculated that Welch was looking for the so-called underground tunnels, where alt-right and pro-Trump conspiracy theorists on 4chan and Reddit expressed belief that the Democrats tortured children, the Daily Beast reports. The conspiracy seized on John Podesta's leaked emails which apparently contained a "pizza theme", which was taken to be a secret code with private meanings. The code names for pizzagate and the art of biljana Djiurdjevic. That's Tony podesta favorite artist #pizzagate pic.twitter.com/pyesLdSfYq — I pray for you (@bluemindsoul22) November 21, 2016 × Since the election, the restaurant's owner has received hate mail and death threats via text, social media and Facebook, reports the New York Times. Employees have had to quit the Comet Ping Pong in fear after their personal information was shared online, the Daily Beast reports. Reddit has since closed those groups, as per their policy of not sharing private information. The fake news was sufficiently high-profile in early November that retired General Michael Flyyn, who Donald Trump has since selected to be his national security adviser, shared it on Twitter, asking readers to judge its veractiy for themselves. U decide - NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc...MUST READ! https://t.co/O0bVJT3QDr — General Flynn (@GenFlynn) November 3, 2016 × Articles appeared on Facebook and on sites like The New Nationalist and The Vigilant Citizen, which ran headlines like, "Pizzagate: How 4Chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washington's Occult Elite", the New York Times reported. Various news outlets debunked the claim that an occult sex ring was operated by Clinton and other Democrats out of the pizzeria basement. The owner, James Alefantis, told BBC Trending that the accusation is impossible for a very basic reason: "We don't even have a basement." (WION)

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