Restaurateurs protest: on April 28, we open the premises for the last time

Can one imagine tourism without catering? Or for that matter, a normal life without venues? And beyond that, if restaurateurs have to keep venues closed for a long time, or reduce capacity by a lot, how will they survive? These and many other questions have led a group of restaurateurs gathered on Facebook in the group “Ho.Re.Ca Unita” to launch, for Tuesday, April 28, a protest throughout Italy: symbolic opening of the premises with illumination of the signs and windows to express the “will to return to full activity.” The invitation, addressed to all colleagues (and hundreds have already joined) is to “turn on the signs and lights of the premises for the last time.”

“Producing, generating employment and giving excitement are our vocations, ensuring a productive contribution to the country system, our mission,” the restaurateurs who called the protest write in a note. “A sign of unity and exhortation #risorgiamoitalia will be visible from the windows and on the elevations of each restaurant. Everyone will manifest their protest with photos, video messages and demonstrative acts in order to raise awareness of the reasons for our common cause. Our regret is that this may be happening for the last time.”

The restaurateurs, while declaring themselves aware of the health drama that is befalling the country, frown upon the possibility of reopening with measures deemed counterproductive: reduced capacity, spacing, and even some speculate on the installation of Plexiglas partitions between diners. Above all, they point to the fact that the activities i have had their revenues wiped out. “In the face of our great willingness,” they continue, “government action to date has proven to be late and insufficient. We have been pressed for liquidity and we have not even received the necessary guarantees. When we talk about phase two or phase three, unsustainable parameters are contemplated, unbridgeable distances with a 70 percent reduction in available covers and all the responsibilities borne by the managers. Open with 30/40% of revenues and 100% of costs. For public entertainment venues, the reopening date is not even on the horizon. This is a game of slaughter that we do not want to participate in. Without proper guarantees we will not reopen!”

The protest will then continue on April 29, when the restaurateurs, again in a symbolic way, will hand over the keys to the businesses to the mayors, asking them “to overturn them on the tables of the government.”

Restaurateurs protest: on April 28, we open the premises for the last time

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