The cleaning shops are doing badly in the CoV crisis. With hygienic and thus health-preserving textile cleaning, the 96 companies in Vienna are considered to be system-preserving and are allowed to keep open even in lockdown, but they do not have customers.
07.12.2020 00.05
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Many customers currently do not pick up items that have already been cleaned. At the same time, the need for textile cleaning also fell sharply. Thousands are on short-time work, there are no big celebrations, weddings and balls, and you don’t have to poke around for the home office.
Depending on the hotel and catering industry
This means that fewer shirts, suits and evening dresses come to the cleaning shop. The hardest hit are those companies that have specialized in the laundry cleaning needs of the hotel and catering industry, said textile cleaner and guild master deputy Franz Lang to “Vienna today”. A correspondingly specialized company has already had to close.
Cleaning shops: no business
Although cleaning shops were allowed to keep open during the lockdown, business remained out.
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In Vienna there are currently 96 cleaning shops with around 2,000 employees. Many are currently suffering major losses in sales – around 60 percent on average. Rabia’s drycleaning in the Kalvarienberggasse in Hernals also has more than half less income, said boss Rabia Aksoy-Özcan. But the fixed expenses remain: “With minus I paid the vacation pay, with credit the Christmas bonus,” said the single mother in the “Vienna today” interview. Currently she doesn’t even have 1,000 euros a month left to live on.
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