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The Federal Council decided that as of Thursday only four people will be able to visit a restaurant at one table. The curfew from 11 pm applies throughout Switzerland. Events for up to 50 people are still allowed. The gastronomy and culture industry looks black at the moment, almost all theaters in Basel close immediately. How long, no one knows.
“This is how politics is leading the restaurant sector into the abyss”
Maurus Ebneter, president of Basel-Stadt Wirteverband, was particularly concerned on Thursday. From now on, new measures are applied in the catering industry. Even if the curfew has already been introduced in Basel-Stadt, the limitation to four people per table is even more drastic.
“Politics is driving the restaurant industry into the abyss,” Ebneter tells Telebasel. “Four people per table, it’s a huge restriction, it’s very drastic.” According to Ebneter, one could even speak of discrimination compared to private occasions where 10 people are allowed. “Why shouldn’t that also be possible in the hospitality industry, where there is a concept of protection?”, The president of the Innkeepers Association is disappointed by the Federal Council.
The entire interview with Maurus Ebneter, President of Basel-Stadt Wirteverband. (Video: Telebasel)
“Although we understand that the Federal Council has to act in the current situation, there is great desperation in the industry,” explains Ebneter. The measures are disproportionate and badly thought out, for example the curfew from 23.00. “We fear a shift into the private or even underground sphere,” says Ebneter, and it would be much easier to maintain control in the restaurant scene.
Some theaters in Basel are closed with immediate effect
Once again the blow that hits the cultural industry is hard. Some theaters in Basel suspend their performances immediately, for example the Puppet Theater and the Fauteuil Theater. What happens to the events leading up to the carnival is uncertain. No one knows when this measure will end.
“Financially it will be huge for all of us,” says Daniel Jansen, director of the Marionette Theater. But that’s by no means the worst point, explains Jansen: “We are all cultural workers, we are hosts, on stage, behind the scenes and in front of the stage. All this is omitted and it is actually our soul, which is currently not possible, that is, to be able to interpret the audience, please them and give them thoughts. All that is omitted and that is very hard. “
Telebasel in an interview with Daniel Jansen, director of the Puppet Theater. Dani von Wattenwyl, who now has to do without his stage appearances, also speaks. (Video: Telebasel)
The Puppet Theater will remain closed until the end of the year. Jansen still doesn’t know what will happen then. “We will decide how to proceed from mid-December,” explains Jansen. The current situation is difficult to assess.
The future of the two pre-carnival events at the Marionetten Theater is also at stake: “If you can do this here with 50 people, that’s 50 percent for us, we’ll think about it. But like I said, it’s too early for us now.” . to say that. Tickets will not be refunded yet ”, it is probably not the only pre-Carnival event with an uncertain future.
