VIDEO. "It's 80% of my turnover at lunchtime": restaurateurs worried about the drop in the payment ceiling for restaurant tickets

A blow to restaurants.

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While since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was possible to pay up to thirty-eight euros per day in restaurant tickets, this amount is now down to nineteen euros.

Annoying for restaurant owners: "It's an additional difficulty, yes, but anyway since teleworking we have lost a lot of customers" comments Sophie, owner of the restaurant Le Blavet in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

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“Customers will no longer be able to invite other people with only nineteen euros, so they will have to restrict themselves” anticipates Alexandre, who manages a Thai restaurant.

“It's stress and constant anxiety, anyway.

Our job is becoming more and more difficult, ”says Roger, manager of the Atypic, fatalistic.

Without completely disrupting the activity of restaurants, the measure adds an additional difficulty for a sector already weakened since the health crisis.