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The message is clear: “Many companies in the industry will not survive a second lockdown.” This is what he says in a farewell letter from the restaurant industry to Angela Merkel. More than 80,000 companies could close.
In the corona pandemic, the hospitality and travel industries have warned of further restrictions on the industry. “It cannot be that we are suffering again,” Guido Zöllick, president of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga), said on Tuesday ahead of the federal-state consultations on Wednesday.
“A third of the 245,000 companies are threatened with extinction if they close again.” It would be more than 80,000 companies.
Figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) showed that the industry did not have a relevant infection rate. If the hospitality and catering industry were to be shut down temporarily, those responsible would have to “pay damages quickly and in full,” Zöllick demanded.
Industry representatives write fiery letters to Merkel
In addition, around 30 prominent representatives of the catering industry published a “dismissal letter” to Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the prime ministers of the federal states, in which they presented imminent additional restrictions on opening hours, including temporary closure, as disproportionate and incorrect. Gastronomy is subject to strict conditions, they emphasized.
“In the current second wave of the corona pandemic, the restaurant sector was never a source of infection,” says the letter signed by representatives of the cafe and restaurant chains L’Osteria, Hans im Glück, Nordsee, Block House and Coffee Fellows, among others. Cook Tim Mälzer was there too.
The restaurateurs warned that if they closed, people would be displaced from safe restaurants to the private sphere, but that would be the “hot spot” of the infection. Industry representatives painted a bleak picture just in case: “Many companies in the industry will not survive a second shutdown.”
