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Even if the government relaxes, some pubs will not open. They are afraid of further closures even in winter, which is poor in sales Companies and markets

Prague Roman Prymula with Jaroslav Faltýnek or Miroslav Kalousek in a restaurant, Jurečka with a beer on the street? Politicians recently caught violating government measures might not have to worry about their tramples as of Monday. And with them a whole bunch of excited customers of shops and restaurants. However, even if the government eases the existing measures and traffic bans on Sunday, many pubs will not open the day after.

Some will wait much longer. “Everyone is preparing for the opening, but they don’t rely too much on it. Even if the cabinet on Sunday approved the transfer of rules from the fourth to the third category, it is very difficult to start a restaurant closed from day to day, “reminded Luboš Kastner, co-owner of five restaurants of Hospodska, which represents gastronomy in the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises and Tradesmen.

Concerns about uncertainty

The third stage of the anti-epidemic system (PES) makes it possible to open a catering facility quite generously from six in the morning until ten in the evening. Pubs would not have a problem even with other restrictions – a maximum of four people at one table. They consider the restriction on the use of only half of the company’s capacity to be more complicated. Somewhere they take half of the tables, somewhere they separate half with tape. However, it is difficult for anyone to check.

Dispensing window.

“We are adapting, I do not want to complain. But we are afraid that if the epidemiological situation worsens again next week, we will have to close again after a week. This is a worse option than if the restaurants remained closed without a break, “said Kastner.

Even because of these fears, many pubs would not open on Monday, even if they could. Some pubs who have laid off employees in distress or are holding them only thanks to wage compensation from the Antivirus program may quite wait to open until the spring. January and February are dead months for gastronomy, people go to pubs minimally and the current drop in sales would not save the half-empty locations.

The contemplated reopening on Monday represents a time gap for all pub suppliers. Not only food and raw materials, but especially beer. Some brewers refer to Monday as a nightmare. Supposedly, because if the government agrees to move to a lower level of PES on Sunday, hundreds of trucks will immediately hit the roads and the warehouses will hardly catch up.

They have a heavy head from such an operation, for example, in Plzeňský Prazdroj, which, as the market leader, supplies more than half of all 40,000 gastronomic establishments in the Czech Republic. “To put it mildly, it would be a very difficult logistical task to deliver beer to all our pubs on time,” responded Prazdroj’s sales director Tomáš Mráz.

Nevertheless, many restaurants – after almost two months of forced foreclosure and due to the dramatic drop in sales since the spring – are waiting for the ban on having mercy to be lifted. This applies to all traders and service providers who also had to close their premises.

Week of preparations. And then what?

For example, all 34 stores of the Kosmas bookstore in the country have been preparing for a possible reopening for a whole week. Pre-Christmas time is a key time of year for sales. And on Monday, they cling to their salvation.

“We have shifts scheduled, temporary workers arranged, we clean up, we do new shop windows. Unfortunately, the whole government’s approach to us traders is shameful, so the decision-making on Sunday is just a spoiled icing on a disgusting cake, “lamented Erika Frýbortová, head of the Kosmas retail network.

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