Some businesses in Orange County, Calif. will be allowed to boost capacity as the region slides into California’s less-restrictive reopening tier May 19. Improving COVID-19 metrics permit the county to enter the yellow tier under the state’s blueprint for a safer economy, the California Department of Health said May 18. The new tier will allow some businesses to increase capacity. Amusement parks can increase outdoor capacity from 25 percent to 35 percent. Museums, aquariums, and zoos can move to full capacity after being previously limited to 50 percent capacity. Bars that do not serve food can also go from outdoors only to 25 percent capacity indoors. Movie theaters can increase from 25 percent to 50 percent capacity. Despite the move, restaurants do not get much more leeway than in the more-restrictive Orange tier, and must stay at 50 percent capacity. Jim Walker, an Orange County-based restaurateur and former president of the Newport Beach Restaurant Association, said that the move in tier …