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José Luis Cabeza

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Seville, 1950. The hotel industry is mortally wounded by the coronavirus crisis.

This businessman tries to fight it with ingenuity and selling his mythical serranitos for 400 pesetas, the price they had in 1983, when he opened his first store.

In the midst of the pandemic, you sell serranitos, the typical Seville sandwich made of loin, ham, tomato and green pepper, at 2.4 euros Yes, my son came up with the idea of ​​finding a price that would be attractive to the public with our product star.

We are selling below cost.

Its price before was 5.50 euros.

Our goal is to attract as much public as possible and thus be able to maintain jobs. How many employees worked in your premises before the coronavirus crisis? We had 40 workers in the three Mesones del Serranito in Seville and now there are twelve.

In the time that we have been closed, they have had collection problems with the SEPE (State Public Employment Service).

They are receiving 50% of the contribution base and a family cannot move forward with that income.

For this reason, we have been forced to reopen our establishments to rescue the maximum number of employees.

We open knowing that we are not going to generate hardly any income. How is the clientele behaving? The problem is that right now, with the restrictions to stop the Covid and the perimeter closure of the city, the people of the towns cannot move to Sevilla.

In addition, the Sevillian of the neighborhoods does not come to the center and tourism, there is not.

So the coronavirus crisis in the hospitality industry is a tragedy, I swear to you on my children. I am sure they have noticed the decrease in tourism at the checkout. The center of Seville is full of tourist apartments, with about 30,000 beds.

There has been an exodus of people who lived in the center to the towns or neighborhoods because the rent is more affordable.

With the pandemic, there is no tourism and the neighbors who used to live here are gone.

The center is dead. How are you experiencing the new hourly restrictions for the hospitality industry? I am outraged.

Now, bars and hotels close at six in the afternoon, but food chains are open until ten.

Young people go to a supermarket and buy the bottles and then meet in a flat, where they are all rebuilt.

If we do not comply with the rules, let them put fines on those who break the law.

The Administration has abandoned us to the hospitality industry and many other sectors.

Politicians raise their salaries, but the country is sinking and people are going to ask Caritas. The aid from the central government and the Junta de Andalucía does not finish arriving.

But there are people who have not collected ERTE!

Although they have forced us to close, the rents of the premises are still being paid and there is no help for the hospitality sector. With the coronavirus infections soaring, do you see it reasonable for the hospitality establishments to close? Everything has its measure.

There are hoteliers of all kinds.

To those who meet the norm, it is not that you have to reward them, but neither do you screw us.

For everyone, what hurts the most is their pocket, so for those who do not comply, fines. How long can they last? As long as they can.

The ICO loans that we have had to request have been through mortgaging our private house and other property as a guarantee of payment, in case of not being able to face that loan.

In short, we must expose our heritage to try to get out of this madness. The Pedro Sánchez government said that we were going to come out stronger from this crisis.

The one who came out stronger has been Pedro Sánchez and his team;

the Spanish, no.

I am ashamed of all the politicians we have.

Those fights in Congress, which looks like a chicken coop!

But I, to my policy, which is serranito, serranito and more serranito!

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