The second lockdown troubles the Würmtaler restaurateurs: Despite the pick-up options, many are only around 20 percent of normal sales.
Some fear that the exceptional situation will be extended into summer.
Würmtal
- During the week at noon and from Friday to Sunday also in the evening, the Neurieder Wirtshaus Lorber offers a reduced standard menu, with an additional lunch menu at noon.
“During the week, with the bad weather and the early darkness, it is not worthwhile to open in the evening.
Otherwise the situation is of course completely different than usual, ”says owner Paul Kaspar.
The number of reservations made by companies, for example, had already dropped noticeably in October.
The “November aid” promised by the federal government has not yet come, “but we hope soon,” says Kaspar.
The inn tries, like the others, to save money.
Paul Kaspar also took a closer look at the overviews of state aid and stumbled upon the phrase “until June”.
“That is not without reason.
I believe that the lockdown will be loosened over the Easter days, but then it will continue, ”says Kaspar.
If the exceptional situation lasts so long, the host family does not know at the moment whether they can hold out.
The Neurieder restaurant now offers its usual high quality (phone 75 10 07).
"We live on the reserve"
"Ristorante Da Serafino" can be ordered from the complete menu in Planegger.
“Families and, above all, many regular customers order regularly, for which the whole family is very grateful.
Nevertheless, we are of course living on the reserve at the moment, which will be gone at some point, ”says owner Florim Gegaj.
"If things continue like this, I don't know whether we'll hold out or be gone in summer," says Gegaj, whose brothers run the "Bella Theranda" at TSV Graefelfing and the "Restaurant Tirol" in Gilching.
Now, during the second lockdown, it is even quieter than during the first, which is probably due to the time of year and the fact that business is weaker and weaker in January.
“We're trying to do a lot through Lieferando, but they take advantage of the situation and have become just as expensive as fuel.
At the moment I'm just trying to pay my rent and doing my best.
Fortunately we stick together in the family, ”says Gegaj.
"We don't really earn any money at the moment, but we can keep our heads above water," says Florian Egner, tenant of the Kraillinger Alten Wirts.
Egner offers a daily changing to-go menu, which is mainly used by senior citizens and parents with children at lunchtime, hardly by employees, as many are in the home office.
At the moment, the Alte Wirt is like the Gasthaus Lorber and the Da Serafino at around 20 percent of normal sales.
Florian Egner was still able to keep his entire core team, also because the summer went well.
But if the exceptional situation lasts longer and longer, the problem grows.
"At the moment I am glad that we are making ends meet at all - which is perhaps also due to the fact that we are one of the few restaurants in the immediate vicinity that are open seven days a week for lunch and dinner," says Egner (phone 89 19 84 44).
Additional costs for employees, cars, petrol
The months October to March are the most important for an Indian restaurant, says Harminder Singh from the Graefelfinger “Punjab Palace”.
“When it's cold, people want something spicy and like Indian spices.” The second lockdown came at an inopportune time for the Indian restaurant and resulted in a huge drop in sales.
“The lockdown also means a lot of additional costs for the employees who deliver, the cars, gasoline and the high fees for delivery services like Lieferando,” says Singh.
Lieferando would now charge around 30 percent, which means that there won't be much left for the restaurants.
The restaurant owner therefore had to “go to the savings book” and can “until now bear the costs”.
“But you never know what's coming - what if one of our employees gets sick, for example?” Asks Singh.
The popular restaurant on Bahnhofstrasse offers its complete, extensive menu with around 200 dishes, starters, salads, soups and lunches for pick-up and delivery (phone 89 80 07 50 or use the app developed in-house, search for Punjab Palace in the app store).
Peter Seybold