This restaurant made a 'chicken zip line' for socially distanced orders

A restaurant in New Orleans is going viral for the innovative way it’s managed to serve its customers fried chicken . while maintaining strict social distance guidelines. The eatery, called McHardy’s Chicken & Fixin’, has been serving customers with an inventive, DIY zip line. The restaurant debuted its “distanced fried chicken delivery” in April, when Louisiana was still under a statewide stay-at-home order. Local news outlets immediately began covering the inventive pulley system, which allowed employees to hoist food from the counter to customers standing a safe distance away. “Zip line fried chicken?” Ian McNulty, a food culture reporter for Nola.com wrote on Instagram. “Clothesline fried chicken? Whatever it is, the contraption @mchardyschicken rigged up early in the coronavirus crisis always makes me smile". "Behind it though there’s a serious message for small businesses like this trying to get through these times". Rahman Mogilles, who runs the eatery with his family, told Nola.com that “you’ve got to be creative” during times like these". “Don’t come in between a man and his fried chicken,” an Instagram user joked on McNulty’s video