Results: Thinking Outside The Box

Would you go to a drive-thru zoo? Toronto Zoo is looking at reopening to the public as an experience in which visitors would look at animals without getting out of their vehicles. The pre-booked driving route would allow guests to see the zoo's animals from the comfort and safety of their own vehicle along a 3.4-kilometre route. The city-owned zoo was closed of course, due to COVID-19 concerns. In mid-April it made a plea to the public for donations to help pay for food for the roughly 5,000 animals. The drive-thru experience would meet all government requirements for physical distancing and other rules to prevent spread of the virus. Would you enjoy going to a drive-thru zoo?

It's unclear when Canada's largest zoo will launch its new vehicle-only program, but test drive-thru runs were recently conducted at the zoo as staff rehearsed the routes which future visitors will take across the property. Drive-thru zoos are not a new experience. Many locations, including Ontario's own African Lion Safari, have been conducting drive-thru animal sightseeing for years. The difference is that the Toronto Zoo was not originally set up for this type of experience. Do you think many services and businesses will come up with new innovative ways to reopen now that things are starting to reopen (although in some places, especially Canada, very cautiously)?

The exhibit "Immersive van Gogh," which had to postpone its May 1 opening in Toronto due to physical distancing requirements, is offering "drive-in" viewing in June. It's being called the "world's first drive-in digital art exhibition." Between June 18 and 28, "Gogh by Car" will allow 14 vehicles at a time to park in the Toronto Star building that once held the newspaper's printing presses for a 35-minute art, light and sound show about Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, whose masterpieces are taken to new heights and come alive through an all-encompassing sensory experience of art, light, sound, movement and imagination. Is this something you would find interesting?

Now that restaurants have to rethink the way they operate, some are coming up with interesting ways to achieve this. Here are just a few of the oddest ways restaurants are thinking of to create a safe, eating environment when they are allowed to reopen -- which do you find the most innovative?