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The restaurants returned to activity after six months: "Difficult to start the business again"

Cafes and restaurants opened this morning after being closed to the public since September.

Along with the fear of business owners from further closure and the difficulty in recruiting employees, customers seemed satisfied.

"Fun to sit in a restaurant after a long time, need to be disciplined and will be fine"

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Sapir Levy

Sunday, 07 March 2021, 13:46 Updated: 13:51

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"The feeling that this is the last closure", a cafe in Tel Aviv, today (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The third facilitation phase of the exit plan came into effect this morning (Sunday), as part of which restaurants, banquet halls, hotels and attractions for the general public will be reopened under the restrictions of the purple and green mark.

This is the widest opening of the economy since the outbreak of the epidemic that began a year ago, in which all industries will be open at the same time.

The industries that return to activity will have to adapt to the limitations of the green label, the first of its kind in the world, with the responsibility for enforcing the restrictions being on the business owners.

Many Israelis visited the restaurants this morning, including Amit Katz and his son Itai, who came to Cafe Nimrod in the Tel Aviv port.

In a conversation with Walla! Amit said, "We are having a fun day, father and son.

It was finally possible to do something like that. "Itai added that" it's fun to sit in a restaurant after a long time.

I feel that there will be no more closure, that we are after that, but we have to be careful and be disciplined and then it will be okay. "

Shlomo Ayalon, a customer at the Aroma Cafe in Tel Aviv, also shares the feeling that the third closure was the last.

He said, "As part of the restrictions, we have been here all along. We are a permanent parliament, as permitted we have been here."

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"Fun day father and son."

Amit and Itai Katz, this morning (Photo: Reuven Castro)

While the layout allows for only partial opening of places and the difficulty of recruiting employees has become one of the main challenges, many business owners who are desperate to return to a routine that was before the Corona are willing to face the difficulties.

Apart from the fact that 94 regulations were approved at the last minute, one of the main reasons for this is the difficulty of recruiting workers who are in the IDF at the state's expense by the end of June

.

Two weeks ago, the Employment Service allows employers to inform employees who do not want to return to the same job they had before leaving unpaid leave, but in practice no visible results on the ground.

Ariel Kakun, Branch Manager Coffee in Tel Aviv stated that "Our situation today is not good because all of our employees "Almost in the IDF and we are not able to recruit employees. It is appropriate for them to stay at home and receive NIS 5,000-6,000."

According to him, he has been trying to recruit workers for two weeks and is unsuccessful.

"Because of the workers' problem, this specific branch still remains only in takeaway. We are unable to move the place. We continue to manage the place in a closed and takeaway format until we can recruit employees."

Failing to recruit workers, almost all of them in the IDF. Kakon runs a coffee shop in Tel Aviv, today (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Bella Sherman, head of a shift at the Bnei Hadayeg restaurant in Tel Aviv, said that "most of us are excited today. We waited a long time to open."

She also noted the difficulty in recruiting.

"The team is not yet 100%," she described.

"I do not know what needs to be promised to them so that they will want to come back. But we already have a lot of orders. In recent days we have received a lot of calls and questions if we are opening, people are thirsty to go back to restaurants. "They promised. Only that they would not bring us another closure."

Itzik Gibash, Nimrod Coffee Manager, also shared the excitement of the reopening and the recruitment challenge.

According to Gibash, "There is a very great difficulty in recruiting employees but we are overcoming it. All in order to do what we are good at, which is to host. We have employees who are soul players, employees who care about the business and have given up the job.

Our customers, all in a good atmosphere have good music, people are smiling.

We hope to continue like this and not have to deal with further closures. "

"Mostly excited today. We waited a long time to open."

Sherman, shift manager at the Bnei HaDaig restaurant (Photo: Reuven Castro)

However, alongside business owners who feel a sense of relief this morning, there are those who feel differently.

After the government approved the regulations only on Saturday night, less than a day after they came into force - many decided not to open their businesses this morning and wait for the rest of the week or after Passover.

Data from the Association of Restaurants and Cafes show that only half of the businesses in the industry will open today - some of the businesses are preparing to open in the next two weeks and some will only open after Passover.

After criticizing the opening layout of the restaurants, it was finally decided that only sitting inside would be limited to the vaccinated and recovering.

There will also be an occupancy limit of 75% to one hundred people in enclosed spaces.

Seating outside, however, will be allowed to the general public, also under the restriction of one hundred diners.

A distance of at least two meters will be maintained between the tables, with a dedicated sorter who will enforce this.

The bars will open with a distance of two meters and with at least one empty chair between the spenders - except for those who live together.

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