The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends takeout and drive-through for safe dining out options. But many people prefer eating out in their favorite restaurants, and as more eateries and bars open across the country, experts say there are still ways to observe social distancing.

According to Business Insider, the CDC recommends that dine-in customers stay 6 feet apart and keep their dining parties small. Ideally, people who dine at the same table should be members of the same household because they are exposed to each other every day. The agency also recommends that employees were masks.

Restaurant owners worry that these measures will reduce their income since social distancing in dining rooms means operating at less than half capacity. Architectural experts told Business Insider that there are ways to optimize profits while minimizing health risks:

• Outdoor dining. Dr. Ramzi Asfour, an infectious disease expert in the San Francisco Bay area, said that converting existing eateries to outdoor cafes helps reduce the risk of viral transmission and is a possible solution for restaurants that want to reopen safely. Experts added that adding planter benches alongside the dining area can help separate customers from passersby.
• Air quality. Maintaining clean air circulation can help keep viruses under control, along with social distancing practices.
• Servers should wear face masks.  Asfour added that restaurants could offer patrons paper bags to store their masks while eating.
• Hosts should take customers’ temperatures at the door before they enter and offer automatic payment rather than present a physical check.
• Surround tables with high barriers. Experts told Business Insider that keeping diners 6 feet apart may be impossible for small restaurants. One of their suggestions is to create booths with high plastic barriers between them.
• Restaurants should not offer communal condiments like ketchup and mustard, and should change table linens after every customer.

“Almost everybody will have an infection in their establishment at some point,” Asfour told Business Insider. “If you can show that you abided by the guidelines, you’ve trained your staff, you’ve thought about air flow, you’ve thought about spacing, you’ve maybe even used a consultant — all of these steps mitigate your risk.”

Eleanor J. Murray, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, warns that even with all the safety precautions in place, she is leery about dining out.

“They are likely to decrease the risk,” Murray told Healthline. “Whether they are good enough to make it not risky at all, I don’t think that’s the case. I don’t think there is any way to make dining out a completely risk-free experience.”