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Company lunches and dinners have returned for Christmas.

A few weeks ago the polygraphist Conchita Pérez confessed to this supplement that at this time of year she had a very high work peak.

The reason?

Infidelities

or doubts about them that occur within company dinners.

Precisely Mediaset lives a new soap opera originated in the Unicorn Content Christmas party and whose protagonists are Alba Carrillo and Jorge Pérez.

If the last name does not sound like

you, you would recognize the photo of the civil guard that went viral on

the Benemérita Twitter in April 2018. Pérez stopped serving and protecting citizens to work as a model and become the winner of

survivors

2020. While more data is known about what happened at the Unicorn party, other figures are known, those of the exponential increase in reservations in the Madrid hospitality industry.

The Madrid Association of Restoration Companies (AMER) has published the results of the first weekend of Christmas lunches and dinners.

The balance is 7.5 million euros for the coffers of the restaurants

in the capital only in the last weekend of November.

Another interesting piece of information is that Christmas is getting closer and closer, as Mariah Carey knows, which is why reservations for this type of gathering have been taking place throughout the month of November.

"The good results obtained, despite the dark clouds in the economy, have to do with the desire to recover the

Christmas gatherings and celebrations of groups of friends and co-workers after three years,

since 2019," they point out from AMER.

Reservations have increased by 40% compared to 2021, where the seventh wave of the covid wreaked havoc on company calls.

This is how the hoteliers of Madrid transmit it to LOC.

"We are very happy about the increase in reservations that is taking place this year

. Several factors have come together, some of them as important as people's desire to see their colleagues again. Teleworking has made these meetings more meaningful still.

In addition, a distribution is taking place in the reserves and days like Wednesdays are already being completed.

On the other hand, and although we are satisfied with how customers are responding, we must not forget that energy and raw materials have suffered a large increase in cost, so the profit margin will be lower for this reason," he says. Rafa Andrés, owner of the Rafa restaurant, located in Retiro and which has been running for 66 years.

Eduardo Gambero, owner and partner of Solo de Croquetas, reiterates Rafa's words and conveys his experience: "Last weekend we were already full. It is true that there were also reservations at the beginning of November.

The strongest week is that of before Christmas Eve,

when every day is practically full and that weekend is already fully occupied".

Eduardo Gambero and Javier del Moral have known each other since they were 3 years old and are the owners of Solo de CroquetasCedida

His story is that of two friends, he and his partner Javier del Moral, who travel to Asturias and wonder why there is no cachopo croquette.

With this idea in mind, they returned to Madrid and opened their first establishment on Calle Echegaray and two years ago another on Avenida Reina Victoria.

In addition to serving croquettes in the aforementioned locations, they also have a strong online presence.

In fact, Gambero points out that companies not only organize typical dinners around a table but also other activities that improve their figures.

"Companies are doing more and more group dynamics and the restaurants that are dedicated to organizing events have benefited us.

The hospitality industry that lives on the menu of the day has not noticed it and has even been affected by teleworking.

In our case it is the other way around.

For example, many companies call the croquette tasting day and make large orders.

Also celebrations in the offices themselves, etc".

Restaurants have not only recovered the pre-pandemic data but have surpassed them, increasing their turnover by almost 6%.

All this thanks to the Christmas taverns.

In fact, one of the satirical news items that has returned to the news these days has been:

"In Spain there are already more company dinners than companies."

Another quality of hoteliers, especially those from Madrid, is that of discretion, so since he is not a public figure like Alba Carrillo, his secrets are safe.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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