Since July 25, restaurants in eleven towns of the Côte Fleurie, in Normandy, have been experimenting with the health pass.

But between the vagueness of the authorities' instructions and the reactions of customers, the restaurateurs met by Europe 1 look grim.

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The health pass has been set up on an experimental basis in bars and restaurants in eleven towns on the Côte Fleurie since July 25.

Now is the time to take stock for managers.

And he's not brilliant.

A week of sanitary pass, a week of hiccups, lost customers, and incomprehension, for the restaurant l'Atelier in Trouville-sur-Mer, in Normandy.

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It's been over a week since its manager, Scott Metenier hung a slate on the door of his brewery saying: "Thank you for preparing your pass to present your server".

However, it has been a few days since the restaurateur no longer checks the sanitary passes at the entrance.

The fault, according to him, to vague instructions from the prefecture.

"At the start, we clearly said that we could not receive people if their health pass was not valid," he explains.

"And then we learned that we didn't have to refuse people and even on the contrary, we didn't even have the right to refuse."

"Clearly, we had a big lack of customers"

An artistic blur that also disturbed customers.

"People don't understand. They come one day we refuse them. The next day we take them, even if their test isn't valid or whatever. People didn't understand anything anymore, like us," sighs Scott. Metenier.  

This experiment has therefore been expensive in a season already plagued by the Covid.

At the time of the shot.

The dining room is almost empty.

"Clearly, we had a big lack of customers following that. We have bad weather, the Covid in addition. Clearly, for us, it is catastrophic", asserts the restaurant owner.

"We do it especially for others, because me, personally, it swells me"

However, on the customer side, we release our health pass with good grace.

"We do it especially for others, because me personally, it swells me", smiles a client, who is sipping a cocktail.

But hey, I do it for others, and for our freedom. "

After this experiment, the health pass should be requested in all bars and restaurants in the country from August 9.