Sandra Ebeling would like to welcome guests again in her “Café Baden”. Photo: Alex
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Schönau.(ths) And again Sandra Ebeling looked at her bank account. “Nothing new,” was her reaction, like the days before. The owner of the “Café Baden” meanwhile the financial support from the program “Stabilization Aid Corona for the Hotel and Restaurant Industry”, which amounted to 11,000 euros for them. However, there was a first discount from the November aid approved since December 18, but “not yet the entire amount of almost 5900 euros”. And at the December Aid, the former trainer and branch manager at the “Dänisches Bettenlager” only received notification that her application had been received.
The 42-year-old was incredibly grateful for the support that the local CDU city councilor Heinrich Ludwig Runz and in particular the CDU constituency member Albrecht Schütte gave her at the time, so that the financial injection of the “stabilization aid” really reached her. Runz herself had learned from the newspaper that her first year as a restaurateur in the monastery town was so difficult, and then turned on Schütte for further support, who finally “turned the right screws”, as he informed the RNZ.
But the mountain of debt of around 20,000 euros, which has accumulated since the beginning of the corona pandemic at the beginning of the year and the associated closings, could not be removed by any means. “The monthly costs for lease, personnel, electricity and goods continue to run, of course, although everything has been slimmed down,” said the woman from Saxony-Anhalt, who has lived in Schönau for 13 years, always wanted to be self-employed and last January, when she was ready to go “Café Baden” a new operator was sought. “I really didn’t need such a bad year,” she said after the “miserable start of the epidemic”.
Because the originally planned income could only be partially achieved due to the weeks-long closure in the spring “and now again” with out-of-home sales. That’s why she now only buys the meat through the dealer. The remainder, as the single parent of an 18-year-old son explained, no longer procures through suppliers, but herself – yes, if there is still money left over.
In retrospect, she only went into raptures when she talked about sales at the “Christmas shop window” in the city at the beginning of December. “That has already helped us,” said Ebeling, expressing her gratitude for those who would “to this day” contribute to “I can still keep my head above water”.
So she longingly awaits the end of the lockdown. She announced this at the end of March. Because “on Shrovetide in February” would certainly “break all dams”, she advised caution and hoped to be able to continue paying off the debt.
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