Starting Wednesday, restaurants will be able to offer inside dining at 50% capacity.

The open dining concept at La Fortuna Bar & Restaurant in Stratford looks a little different in the era of COVID-19.

Partitions now separate every table -- something mandated by state guidelines if tables aren't at least 6 feet apart. Portable barriers populate the bar area.

It's a new normal manager Aleks Gjeka says the family business is ready to embrace.

La Fortuna was relatively new when the pandemic hit, causing the Italian restaurant to pivot to takeout and delivery. The restaurant opened in November 2019.

"Based on the group of the people that come to sit on the bar, we can relocate them within 10 seconds," said Gjeka.

When customers return, they'll find a change to the menus too -- now printed on poster board and displayed in front of each table. Diners can see their options without touching anything.

The restaurant is making sure customers know it is open for business. A large sign went up at the start of Phase 1 when La Fortuna began offering outdoor seating, something it had never done before. Now it is ready to welcome customers back to the original dining room.

La Fortuna got a deep clean with an electrostatic spray Tuesday. The company markets it as a way to protect surfaces from bacteria and viruses for 30 days.

"Our machines allow us to take away the human error involving sanitizing," said Kristopher Kontos, owner of Eco Sanitation Solutions.

Gjeka says staff will still follow cleaning regulations every day and have the restaurant disinfected like this on a monthly basis.