“The baked tartare tastes just as good as it did six months ago,” says Michael Haas. You can tell that he is happy that he can enjoy the specialty of the “Weinhaus am Spielberg” in Randersacker with a friend and a bottle on the terrace. It is 12.30 p.m., May 10th, in the Würzburg district, for the first time since it was closed on November 2nd, you can sit back at a table and eat and drink something. The first guests enjoy the new freedom on the terrace of the “Spielberg”. The food is steaming on the tables and the atmosphere is excellent.
“It’s good,” says Elke Braun, who sits a few tables away in the midday sun. She really missed ordering at the table, being served and eating something freshly cooked. “It’s just different from to-go food.” Elke Braun and her husband make up for Mother’s Day on Sunday by visiting a restaurant in broad daylight. Since the two are a household and no one else is with them, they didn’t have to be tested for lunch in the restaurant.
Two couples, two vaccination cards and two negative tests
It is different with the four people who are welcomed by the landlady Stefanie Sokoll at the bar next to the disinfection stand at the entrance. The guests, a married couple from Würzburg and their friends from Mainstockheim, hiked along the Main to Randersacker. A couple pulls out the vaccination cards with which the complete immunization is confirmed. The other couple, on the other hand, does not yet have complete vaccination protection and was at a test station before the meeting. Landlady Sokoll looks at the printed test results and the four friends are brought to their table.
According to the Corona regulation, outdoor catering is allowed to open with a 7-day incidence of less than 100. Table reservations and documentation for contact follow-up are required. Guests only have to submit a negative test if people from more than one household sit at a table who have neither been vaccinated nor recovered. If the incidence is between 50 and 35, this test does not apply. Then two households with a maximum of five people per table are allowed.
Michael Haas and Udo Urlaub also had themselves tested in Würzburg before lunch. A bit of a hassle, but the opportunity to have lunch together again in the local pub was worth it to them. “We also want to support the catering industry now,” says Urlaub.
“The guests missed the Spielberg as a place to socialize.”
Landlady Stefanie Sokoll –
Despite the first steps in opening, the situation is not that easy for the catering industry. First, the provisions are confusing and, second, there is great uncertainty about the variability in incidence figures. In addition, the restriction to outdoor catering makes it difficult to organize staff and food – if the weather is bad, business has to shut down again. In “Spielberg” you start with a slightly smaller day ticket.
“Wonderful”, says landlady Sokoll when asked what it feels like to welcome guests to her wine bar again. “My husband is also happy that he can put the food on the plate in the kitchen again.” The to-go business on the weekend was not a real substitute for the personal hospitality that is available in the Spielberg. “I missed the contact with the guests and the guests missed the Spielberg as a place to socialize.”
Sociability, cosiness, enjoyment – on Monday guests in “Spielberg” and other restaurants in the Würzburg district were able to experience again and discover what they have missed over the past six months.
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