Inflation affects all sectors.

Among them, the professionals of the collective catering who ask their customers - the communities and the schools - an increase of "at least 9%" of their contracts, in a letter published Monday in the specialized press of the communities.

"And if this is not possible, we ask to be able to break the contracts", is it added in this letter signed by the National Union of Collective Catering (SNRC) which includes large groups such as Sodexo France and Elior, and the National union of catering and service companies (SNERS).

"For three years, our sector has been experiencing the deepest crisis in its history, faced with rising prices, we can no longer continue", assure the signatories who affirm that in one year the price of ingredients has increased by "more by 12%" and that "the sector's wage scale has been increased by more than 7%".

"The electricity bill will triple during the year", they warn in this forum broadcast in particular by

La Gazette des Communes

,

Le Courrier des Maires

and

Le Moniteur

.

“Now, with every meal served in a canteen, companies in our sector lose money”.

The unions point out that the Council of State authorized in an opinion of September 15 these contractual modifications.

"Some communities have already done so, we sincerely thank them", write the signatories of the forum.



Every day, collective catering feeds 3.2 million children in 30,000 schools, they say.

The consumer association Trade Union Confederation of Families (CSF) warned at the end of August of this problem of unsustainable costs.

It noted in its annual study on the cost of the start of the school year that the meal prices for the coming year were not yet known in many municipalities and said that it feared a possible increase in these prices at the start of the school year or next January. .

As of this summer, catering professionals had stepped up to the plate and some communities had accepted increases of 7% on average.

The SNRC and SNERS also point out that the sector employs 100,000 people.

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