Checkerboard Seating ®is a seating distancing system that greatly reduces the likelihood of transmission of communicable diseases by distancing people in a seating arrangement. The average pitch (pitch means the horizontal distance between patrons) is 3 feet.

Research done by respected scientific organizations shows the following:

Droplet transmission is greatest in the area between 0 and 3 feet.
For distances greater than 3 feet the amount and size of the droplets decreases exponentially.
In theater seating, patrons are facing the back of each other causing there to be a reduction in infectious spread versus face to face interaction such as typically found in bars or nightclub event settings.

Nothing in these statements or anywhere on this website means that this is a perfect system, but based the current available research provided by respected scientific organizations suggests that the likelihood of transmission appears to be much lower in the environment created by our seating configuration assuming there are no factors beyond our control that impact the environment.
Scientific document backing the theory:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785820/

http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~cmliao/Data/pdf/2009/IndoorAir_2009.pdf

http://imes.mit.edu/faculty-spotlight-lydia-bourouiba/

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