“We have always understood the measures from Bern,” says Bruno Lustenberger, President of Gastro Aargau, on the phone. It almost sounds apologetic. As if he wanted to cushion what is coming: “But now is easy enough. The Federal Council adjusts the requirements for the catering trade every week. We are no longer able to adapt and communicate our protection concepts. It is a disaster. And we don’t know what to do next. We have no planning security. “
That is why Alain Berset receives mail from Gastro Aargau. The industry association clearly criticizes the Federal Council’s approach. The association writes: «The hospitality industry has had a difficult time. Unfortunately, our future – with your decisions, some of which change weekly – looks more than bleak. If you want to close our operations again now by increasing the pressure on the cantons, then many of our members are facing a more than uncertain future. Our reserves are almost completely used up! “
Restaurants are not the hotspots for infections at all
The association expresses its lack of understanding of the measures, as restaurants are not the hotspots for infections. And he criticizes that there is too little support: “There are all kinds of cushioning measures for which we are thoroughly grateful. But we are robbed of the income and let us sit on a large part of the costs. ” At the latest when Parliament decided not to accommodate SMEs when it came to renting, politics turned its back entirely on entrepreneurs.
“We don’t want anything for free!” It continues. But solutions are needed. “Our member companies cannot survive with the current hardship measures, which are hardly effective in our case. If you force us into a de facto professional ban again without offering an adequate solution for the high fixed costs, our means will definitely be exhausted very quickly. ” The protection concepts would work, as the low number of infections proves, is in the letter. Together with the request: “So let’s work.”
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