REPORTAGE
The reopening of terraces in Île-de-France is not enough to achieve profitability for certain restaurant professionals. Without their room, it is difficult to ensure a sufficient number of seats, all the more when the weather has fluctuated between gray and rain for a few days, as Parisian professionals said on Tuesday on Europe 1. "It is very precarious, I call my employees at the last minute, or not, and I put those I don't call part time. It is a daily management at 11 am in fact ", testifies Corinne who manages the restaurant Le Petit Voisin.
"Everything gets complicated"
"Everything becomes complicated. To manage stocks in the kitchen, we are very careful. We threw away on March 14 that we are very careful," adds the restaurateur.
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In her restaurant, Corinne is forced to go from 50 places on a good day to 20 places in case of rain. The euphoria of the first two days of sunshine after the reopening of the terraces is already far away and many managers are warning about their financial situation.
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"It remains very calm"
So much so that some professionals have taken a radical decision: do not reopen on June 2. This is the case of Virginie, the owner of the restaurant Corso library, in the 13th arrondissement of the capital. "Last week, we went every day to see a little bit of what was being done in the neighborhood and we see that it remains very calm. There are some cases that have opened and that have closed," he explains. she.
Flexibility demanded by professionals
Virginie aims to reopen her establishment "on June 22, at the same time as the cinema". "We are right next to a cinema, so we hope to have a little more activity with cinemas," she said.
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Faced with the situation, the UMIH (Union of hotel trades and industries), the main union in the sector, asked the government to relax the rules and authorize the reopening of the interior of restaurants before June 22.