It is baked and fried from morning to night in industrial-scale soup kitchens. “Thanks to this, expenses are concentrated in one place and you also save on staff,” explains the benefits of Álvaro, the owner of one of the kitchens. Six restaurants cook their meals for delivery in it.
Álvar’s kitchen is located in an industrial zone, but other similar facilities are located in populated areas. In the center of Madrid, for example, a huge ventilation tower has been built, which vents hoods from thirty-eight similar kitchens.
“There’s noise, stench and oil droplets. We can’t even open a window to ventilate, “complains José Luis, who has a clothes hanger close by.
Noise from the kitchens is heard until two in the morning, the locals are also afraid of the risk of fire due to congested transformer stations. In addition, they watch in horror as the price of their real estate falls. “Anyone who finds out that he has 38 kitchens under his feet will not pay even half of the price for the apartment,” said Miguel Rodríguez Santiago, another city resident.
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Owners: We give people jobs
People complain that the presence of large soup kitchens has completely changed their quality of life, and they do not understand how these devices can be licensed. However, kitchen owners are resisting the new gastronomic model, saying that in difficult times of pandemics, when the economy is collapsing, they are giving people jobs and generating more than seven hundred million euros a year.
“Forty square meters of restaurants will soon appear, while their kitchens will have two hundred or three hundred to serve virtual platforms,” said Carlos Cervera, CEO of Projectum.es.
So far, kitchen owners are being helped by insufficiently clear laws. However, some Madrid councilors are already working to set up control mechanisms to help the desperate people.
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