Gastronomic and hotel businesses should be able to open before Easter – Coronavirus Vienna

One will continue to push to open steps, the gastronomy and hotel industry have presented prevention concepts, so the secretary general of the Chamber of Commerce, Karlheinz Kopf, in the “Kurier”, where he also calls for more intensive tests.

The test strategy needs incentives. An individual and personal benefit should result from the crown tests, which increases acceptance. The fact that more tests can also filter out more infected people who would not otherwise be found “should not lead people to hesitate when opening the door.”

Talks with the government have already started about what the initial next steps might look like: “before Easter.”

At the morning summit at the Chancellery, industry representatives want to present their safe opening models. As in the case of the hairdresser, visits to restaurants should only be possible with a negative test, and there should also be tests in the living room for spontaneous guests, “Austria” refers to the gastro-president of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce , Peter Dobcak. . Only hosts with a large outdoor area could benefit from an early garden opening, he notes.

Limits of 20 square meters per guest as in retail are not feasible, as operating in smaller restaurants would not be worth it. For this there could possibly be a limit of guests per table and a maximum of members from two households would be allowed, the newspaper speculates. Regarding the curfew, the room will be open until 9 pm, it is said.

In addition to the WKÖ President Harald Mahrer, the head of the hoteliers association Michaela Reitterer, the restaurateur Mario Plachutta, the Falstaff editor Wolfgang Rosam and the head of Steirereck, Heinz Reitbauer, also participate in the gastronomy summit.