The hope of retail and catering for a timetable for the reopening of the shops has been disappointed by politicians. This also causes bitterness in Munich.
Munich – The decision by the federal and state governments to extend the corona lockdown without a concrete opening perspective has led to an outcry among those affected. The Textile Trade Association (BTE) spoke of a “mega-meltdown”. The head of the Tengelmann trading group (Obi, Kik), Christian Haub, assessed the resolutions as a “black day for trading”. The German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) reported “frustration and desperation”. The German Trade Association (HDE) accused politics of breaking its word and spoke of a “declaration of bankruptcy” *.
According to HDE, every lost day of sale costs retailers around 700 million euros in sales. “Many no longer know what to do next,” said HDE Managing Director Stefan Genth. “The situation is often hopeless: no planning security at all, no light at the end of the tunnel and still inadequate government support.” Genth paints a bleak picture.
Even if the fashion, jewelry and electronics stores are likely to reopen in March, sales in the so-called non-food sector for the full year 2021 will be 15 percent or 25 billion euros below the 2019 level. If the opening is delayed until May, the minus is even 29 percent or 47 billion euros. Many traders would not survive.
Munich: Innkeepers are burying the gastronomy in the State Chancellery because of lockdown
An extraordinary protest took place in Munich * on Thursday: four Munich restaurateurs lift the coffin from the truck and slowly march in front of the State Chancellery. Landlord Stephan Alof quietly starts the funeral march. On this Thursday, a dozen restaurant and café owners met to symbolically bury Munich’s guest, cultural and event scene.
Funeral of the gastronomy in the Hofgarten in front of the Bavarian State Chancellery.
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“I was always aware that we are important for older residents with our district restaurants. But how important we are is only now becoming clear to me, ”says Luca Validas, who owns the“ Miss Lilly’s ”café and the“ Wuid Bar ”, among other things. Especially in the second lockdown, older, single guests would come to him – not to pick up food, but to talk. And so gilt the spontaneous idea: the restaurateurs should set an example. “Because it was clear that we would be put off again.”
Munich hosts frustrated with corona lockdown – “We just have no prospect”
Among other things, giltas called his colleague Stephan Alof, who is now a mourning companion and contributed the coffin. The hosts feel completely alone. “It is frustrating. We simply have no prospect, no predictability, and even the RKI has said that it is not so easy to get infected with us, ”says Validas. He feels stigmatized that he wants to make an image film with other restaurateurs soon. “So that people know that they are safe in the gastronomy.”
The funeral march is also just the beginning. Every week VALAS wants to draw attention to the situation of the catering trade with colleagues – already on Sunday with the next campaign. “I’m counting on the solidarity of my colleagues, and maybe we’ll even manage to take the campaign to other cities.” * tz.de is an offer from the Ippen Digital Network
List of rubric lists: © Marcus Schlaf
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