Good news for the Ile-de-France restaurateurs who for the moment can only use their terraces.
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the Secretary of State in charge of tourism estimated that the establishments could reopen "a little earlier than June 22", if the health situation evolves favorably.
“With regard to restaurants, it seems to me that the evolution of sanitary conditions in Ile-de-France, the gradual decline in the virus, should allow, I hope, to advance by a few days the reopening of restaurants in their together ”, he declared on France 24 and RFI. This possible reopening must be decided in agreement with the Ministry of Health.
A relaxation of the rules requested
Umih, the main union in the hotel and restaurant sector, asked that cafes, bars and restaurants in Ile-de-France and the other two “orange” zones, Guyana and Mayotte, be able to “reopen quickly”, judging that their exploitation, "limited to the only terraces", was "not profitable".
The employers' union also wants a "general relaxation of the health protocol throughout the territory", where cafes, bars and restaurants have reopened, in particular "the rules for distancing tables to allow establishments to use their full capacity to receive public. "
A call in this direction has also launched by starred chefs. The Secretary of State for Tourism also stressed that he was working on the reopening modalities with a number of tourism professionals "who are still hampered", even closed, as in "the events or the sector of the night. "
