Communal dining returns to Bay Street Emeryville
Bay Area chain Mumu Hot Pot recently moved into its fifth location, on the northwest corner of Bay Street Emeryville. Hot-pot dinners aren’t an obvious post-pandemic dining trend or entrepreneurial investment. At the height of Covid closures, restaurants featuring salad bars and buffets were the first to shut their doors to the public. Picking ingredients partially protected by sneeze guards looked like an easy way to inhale invisible malevolent spores.