Laurent Duc (Umih): "At the hotel, the sanitary protocol is better respected in the restaurant than in the room"

Laurent Duc is dismayed after hearing Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Secretary of State in charge of Tourism, specify that the ban on restaurants serving after 9 p.m. also concerns hotel-restaurants.

Until then, the latter had taken advantage of a vagueness in the ministerial decree to welcome their residents indoors without time limit.

LE FIGARO.

- The concept of "who dines sleeps", with contagious popularity from Paris to Marseille via Toulouse and Lyon, has already fizzled out.

Laurent DUC.

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The decree is vague.

According to its article 51, in a curfew zone, “other establishments open to the public cannot welcome the public between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. except for the activities mentioned in appendix 5, in which appears: hotels and similar accommodation ”.

Consequently, we can consider that, the hotel activity being excluded from the curfew, this includes its restaurant if it reserves it for its customers who, thus, respects the prohibition of "movement of people out of their place of. residence between 9 pm and 6 am ”.

However, this interpretation must be validated by each prefect of each department concerned… After Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne's statement, no one will validate it.

But do customers have a more aggressive Covid after 9 p.m.?

The problem is that room service does not exist in all hotels!

According to Laurent Duc, "the protocols are much more respected in a restaurant than in a hotel room".

Umih

Room service is an obligation for 5-star hotels only…

Absolutely.

It is only mandatory in 5-stars and therefore only concerns 500 establishments out of 18,000 in France.

And then the protocols are much more respected in a restaurant than in a hotel room.

Some cities like Lyon have also banned room service.

You were in favor of "Who dines sleeps"?

Yes.

It was intelligent resistance, logic on the ground that ministers do not have.

Now, I'll be cynical, it's “who sleeps dines”.