“Those who don’t understand anything think that if you stay closed, you don’t have to work. It’s wrong. This job has been my whole life. I’m dying to see people again. Those who know Mike Viard cannot doubt it.
The messiah version of Mamie Branché should have celebrated its first year of installation, on the Esplanade, in full containment. Mike Viard and his partner imported a concept that has been all the rage since 2017, a stone’s throw from Place Stan ‘in Nancy: a place where we eat, drink and dance, on tubes from Dalida to Céline Dion, Claudettes to the Spice Girls.
Trendy Granny could have reopened this Tuesday. The bosses decided otherwise. A “Cornelian” choice, but a choice of reason. “But I had the feeling that we were extraterrestrials. And it was not cheerfulness. “
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“Social distancing is the exact opposite of our profession”
In Metz, some rare establishments have also chosen not to open immediately. Often due to the lack of a terrace and the small size of the premises. Connected Granny has a lot of space, outside and inside. “Many customers have asked us if we are reopening. The second question was whether there would be music and if they could dance. However, it is still prohibited. “Our concept is almost a bar, almost a restaurant and almost a nightclub. If we can’t move, we won’t make it. Social distancing is the exact opposite of our profession. Without forgetting the Sunday brunches, which cannot be held.
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“The instructions that fall are blurred”
Turning with 50% of turnover does not allow you to recoup their costs. The business turns but the expenses are consequent: in all, they have sixteen employees and many extras. How are they taken care of during this prolongation of partial unemployment? What about fixed charges? “We don’t yet know exactly. Falling instructions are unclear. It’s confusing. They have intervened overnight since the start of the crisis. It feels like being the stuffing turkey. So the boss duo borrowed substantial sums twice during the confinement. “We have just doubled our credits again. ”
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” We believe in ! “
Mike Viard and his partner therefore decided to be patient, to wait for the third phase of deconfinement, which they hope for on June 22. “When we see some overcrowded bistros since Tuesday, we say we may have been too strict. But we also wanted to see how things were going to start again. And we believe in it! And they are in the starting blocks!
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