The current lockdown light is forcing restaurateurs to close their restaurants.
The hosts rule on it differently.
There are take-away and street food - or nothing at all.
The partial lockdown particularly affects the catering industry
Landlords are not allowed to open their dining rooms to guests
Some of them have outlived creative solutions
Wolfratshausen
- Some restaurants in Wolfratshausen offer take-away meals.
A traditional landlord relies fully on street food.
And still others stop operating for the duration of the corona measures.
A culinary overview.
Take away meals
The Landhaus Café, Restaurant and Hotel on Sauerlacher Straße offers hungry sweet cakes and hearty meals to take away or to deliver.
However, the cooks don't have to work under constant stress at the moment.
The offer is "accepted very differently," says owner Alexandra Steiner.
On some days the kitchen staff is busy, on others there are hardly any orders.
The offer is particularly popular in the evening, while coffee and cake are rarely served out the shop door.
At the moment it is very difficult to calculate precisely because it is difficult to predict “when the rush will be greater and when not”.
Steiner, who is currently hosting some business guests in her hotel, tries to deploy the staff in a targeted manner.
“Some of my permanent service staff and cooks are currently taking their remaining leave,” she says.
However, the team does not appear with full force during the forced closure.
Also because the temporary workers are currently not needed.
Steiner may have to send some colleagues on short-time work if the situation drags on.
“Of course I would like to avoid that, but I don't know whether we can get by without short-time work.” Currently, even on the good days, the bottom line is “a lot of effort for a small income”.
Since hotel guests can have breakfast from 7 a.m. and the pick-up offer is valid until 9 p.m., Steiner and her team are on duty almost the whole day.
The Landhaus Café offers a delivery service for larger orders.
The boss lends a hand herself: "Most of the time I get in the car and bring the customers their food home."
Food truck instead of delivery service and pick-up service
Benedikt Fagner, junior manager at Humplbräu, is also on the road a lot.
However, he does not go to the residential addresses of the tavern customers, but takes his food truck to commercial areas in the region at lunchtime.
The traditional restaurant in the heart of Marktstrasse does not offer a delivery service or a pick-up service - the food truck with a slimmed-down menu provides the only income.
“But the offer has been well received and a lot of people come by,” says Fagner.
Among them are guests he knows from the restaurant.
If the lockdown lasts even longer, we will consider whether we can offer a to-go shop again in Humplbräu.
Benedikt Fagner
The restaurateur takes great care that customers keep the minimum distances in front of his green car and that no large discussion groups form.
He is “responsible for everything that happens in front of the truck”.
If the queue is longer, Fagner would like to offer drinks to those waiting.
However, the Corona requirements put a spanner in the works because "what is bought from us may not currently be consumed on site".
Even if street sales from the moving pub are currently "really fun" and going well: "If the lockdown lasts longer, we will consider whether we can offer a to-go shop again in Humplbräu."
At the Athos in the former Haderbräu on the Untermarkt, this business has been "relatively good" so far, says junior boss Gentian Kukeli.
The order situation is best on the weekends.
It is true that the Greek restaurant "is of course far from the same sales as usual, but at least the offer is something at the moment".
In order to compensate for the lower yield, only the kitchen staff and Kukeli themselves are currently in use at the Athos.
His working days are much less eventful than when he waits in a full restaurant with souvlaki, ouzo and a lively atmosphere: “It's very quiet.
I sit around a lot and wait for calls from our customers. "
Unusual silence in the rafting inn
There is also unusual silence in the Flößerei inn: the restaurant does not offer a pick-up service.
“We tried that in the first lockdown, but unfortunately it wasn't worth it,” remembers landlord Dominik Tabak.
In general, he sees the current situation as "a very, very difficult time for all restaurateurs".
With a pick-up service, the inn could earn “around ten percent of the other sales”, “but the costs that we would have for that would exceed that many times over”.
For the necessary staff, the operating costs and the food, a much too great effort would be compared to a relatively small yield.
"We are a giant machine", says Tobacco about the two-story restaurant on Sebastiani-Steg, "unfortunately it doesn't pay off".
He will be all the happier “when the inns are allowed to reopen and we can welcome our visitors back to the restaurant”.
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