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Friday, December 25, 2020 - 17:02

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The image has been repeated the first three days of this week, when the restrictions came into force: Queues in cafes and bars to order and then not find a table to consume.

"In the end, we tell many that they cannot stay as they

force us to close at 9:30 in the morning

and we must clear the tables," says a worker at a bakery chain with a cafeteria on Avenida Diagonal in Barcelona. picture does not improve on the noon shift.

«There is a real est

Open at two o'clock to go to eat, at two you see that everyone starts parading so as not to have to run in case they close before you finish, ”explains the board of a professional college in the city.

These are the most visible effects for the consumer of the restrictions imposed by the Generalitat in bars and restaurants due to the coronavirus health crisis.

Thus, they only serve in the establishment in two bands: from 7:30 to 9:30 for breakfast, and from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. for meals.

For dinners they can only offer home delivery, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Inside the restaurants, the maximum capacity of 30% will be maintained, with four people per table, six if they are the same bubble of coexistence. The clamor from the sector did not wait.

The Catalan Federation of Associations of Restoration and Musical Activities (Fecasarm) appealed the decision of the Government to the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) and

requested a precautionary measure to cancel these openings by time slots.

The magistrates will not decide until next week, so the employer quantifies that by then 30% of the losses due to the accumulation of holidays will have already occurred, about 1,400 million euros for the 35,000 affected premises. Fecasarm expects that the TSJC grant the precautionary measure and bars and restaurants can save the New Year's Eve, when 20% of the total turnover of the holidays is achieved.

The employers believe that the restriction imposed by the Generalitat is "arbitrary and disproportionate" as well as "discriminatory" since other sectors operate without time slots. The partial closure of bars and restaurants,

in force until January 11,

It came two days after the Generalitat supported a campaign by the Gremi de Restauració de Barcelona to encourage consumption in bars and restaurants during the Christmas holidays.

This contradiction caused the businessmen to charge the heads of the Health Department, controlled by Esquerra Republicana, while the Business Department, in the hands of Junts Per Catalunya, are the ones that have shown the most interest in not restricting the restoration completely. Gremi de Restauració assured that the intermittent operation of bars and restaurants for 4.5 hours a day is "radically unviable" since there will be an "avalanche of cancellations" in the premises despite the fact that meetings of 10 people are allowed in the houses.

«Esquerra has a sick obsession with restoration.

It seems that the Department of Health was waiting for the figures to worsen to close bars and restaurants again.

The siege we suffer is anticipating, "they say.

Even an owner of a grill in Gerona filed a complaint in court against the counselor Alba Vergés for prevarication by closing "for partisan interest" the premises due to the pandemic and causing economic losses in the sector. The employer recalls that

170,000 workers in the sector will spend Christmas in an Erte

and 50,000 self-employed professionals will not receive aid.

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