The catering sector is sorely lacking in manpower.
Chef Thierry Marx, president of the main employers' union for the hotel and catering industry, Umih, is worried on Tuesday about a "serious lack of staff" in the branch, on RTL.
According to the two-star chef, “200,000 jobs” are missing in French establishments.
At the beginning of December, Thierry Marx was already alerting to this situation and asking that the sector be "considered to be under recruitment pressure".
The hotel and catering industry is indeed faced with recruitment difficulties increased by the Covid-19 pandemic and the needs will increase further.
The chef denounces a “scissors effect with the increase in the cost of raw materials”.
The price of butter, eggs or flour, for example, has exploded.
As for energy expenditure, it crushes small traders.
Gas and softer hours
“I was yesterday with a colleague who told me: “I went from 40,000 to 123,000 euros in electricity costs. There is no point in opening”, reports the president of Umih on Tuesday.
According to him, the government must above all “uncorrelate the price of electricity and the price of gas”.
The gas tariff shield was extended until June 30 by the 2023 finance law, but it does not protect companies.
Still, restaurants will have to make efforts to recruit servers.
Thierry Marx considers that the salary increases have been sufficient but that an effort on the “planning” of working hours must be made.
“It is understood that we want to have one or two evenings a week, or to be able to take our children to school”, he slips.
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