Waiters prepare a room service cart at the Lutetia hotel in Paris, February 12, 2019. -

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Hotel restaurants in areas subject to a curfew due to the Covid-19 pandemic can continue to serve their customers after 9 p.m. but only in "room service", said the Secretary of State in charge of tourism on Friday. .

“All restaurants located in curfew areas close at 9 pm: what is allowed in hotels is to provide room service,” said the services of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne.

“They serve the clients who are in their rooms, so there is no flow and therefore the curfew is respected.

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Questions

Some professionals wondered about the possibility of keeping customers in the restaurant room of a hotel beyond 9 p.m. after comments by Accor CEO Sébastien Bazin.

The boss of the first European hotel group had indeed announced on Tuesday that the “voluntary owners” of establishments operating his brands (Ibis, Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure, Pullman, etc.) could offer restaurant owners in their neighborhood to “take possession of (their ) hotel restaurant ”.

They will be able to put "their brand, their identity, their concept, their menu, their checkered tablecloth," he declared on France inter, affirming the desire of hoteliers to "stick together" with restaurateurs subject to curfew. .

"They will welcome their neighborhood customers and ensure that these customers come to sleep with us at a cost price", in order to respect the curfew at 9 p.m., which will give rise to "a margin sharing", had- he further explained.

Room service, delivery and take-out

However, if unions such as Umih, the leading hotel and catering organization, wanted hotel customers to be able to benefit from table service after 9 p.m., this option was not adopted by the government. , so that the conditions of the curfew "are clear for all activities," said the Secretary of State for Tourism.

Thus only room service in restaurants and hotel bars, such as restaurant delivery and take-out activities, remain authorized after 9 p.m. in departments subject to curfew.

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