The bad news for the hospitality industry does not seem to end. Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Minister Hugo de Jonge again had no good news for catering entrepreneurs on Tuesday. The partial lockdown will certainly last until December, they announced during a press moment.
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Despite this considerable loss, there are also catering entrepreneurs in Rotterdam who use their creativity in these dark corona times to still generate some turnover. This is also the case with Joost van de Braak of the French restaurant Bistrot Du Bac. “The alternative is sitting at home, but then you don’t do anything. Now you stay in touch with your guests.”
Van de Braak has given collection and delivery an extra dimension. “We try to deliver a three-course menu to the people. With an instructional video and a playlist with French chansons. We also add a candle and napkins. It must really feel like customers are in Bistrot Du Bac.”
Room service
Cas Leenders from 21 Pinchos is also creative. His restaurant is located in the Fenix 1 apartment complex on Katendrecht. And he now makes good use of that location. “We turned our restaurant into a hotel lobby and created room service.”
Residents of the complex can call us and ask for the menu. The ordered food is then brought upstairs by Leenders. “Just like in a hotel, we go upstairs with a trolley, cloches, linen and crockery. And in the evening we come to collect the dirty dishes”, says Leenders, who receives only positive reactions from residents.
Van de Braak still emphasizes that this is always plan B. “Running in the restaurant is of course the best, with a good team in the kitchen. That is really the best.”
Watch the entire report by reporter Sjoerd van Oortmerssen here:
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