As of today, unvaccinated people are no longer allowed in restaurants, bars and pubs.
For the landlords in the city and district of Dachau, this 2G rule means severe losses, especially the pre-Christmas business is canceled.
And: unlike last year's lockdown, there is no financial compensation whatsoever.
Dachau
- If the phone rings for Michael Groß or Andrea Schneider these days, it very often means bad news: Reservations that have long been booked, company and Christmas parties are being canceled in a row. “Cancellations, cancellations, cancellations” currently determine the mood at Gasthof Groß in Bergkirchen. And even in Schneider's Zieglerbräu in the old town, 90 percent of all celebrations booked have already been canceled; the rest, the head of the company is unfortunately certain, “will come in the next few days”.
It is not just the turnover that hosts like Michael Groß and Andrea Schneider miss. “It's also the motivation. We are open for standing around. We are forced to open up for nothing, for a tragedy, ”complains the woman from Dachau. Added to this is the uncertainty: According to Groß, the industry “does not know what to do next”. At the Zieglerbräu, "only planned from day to day" is currently being used.
The 2G rule itself is not the real problem in any of this, as both entrepreneurs emphasize.
“In the end, only those who had been vaccinated and recovered came anyway,” explains Groß.
The problem is that the landlords have to provide electricity, heating, food and staff - not knowing how many citizens still dare to go to a pub in the face of exploding numbers of infections.
Basically, says Andrea Schneider, “the lockdown would be almost better.
At least we know where we are ”.
Dehoga district chairman Groß also admits that after all, there was fixed financial support in the lockdown, "the costs were covered".
Basically, he and his colleagues wanted "nothing for free, but we have to survive"!
The good news in the bad: Even worse than the 2G rule that has officially been in effect today would be a regulation based on the 2G plus model, i.e. only those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered with a negative corona test are allowed to go to the bars.
Schneider believes that "would be fatal".
Groß is therefore trying to keep as many as possible of its 35 permanent employees and just as many marginal employees and to get them through this Corona winter.
Groß fears all of them, “I won't need them in the next few weeks”.
Thanks to the good corporate atmosphere in his house and the federal government's generous short-time work regulation, he did not have to record any departures after the lockdown last winter: “They came back.
Luckily."
Anyone who still wants to go to an inn these days, Groß and Schneider promise the greatest possible security. The vaccination or convalescence certificates, including ID cards, would be strictly controlled. The checks in the catering scene announced by the police and district office can therefore "come with pleasure", as the Zieglerbräu boss emphasizes. If it were up to her, the "black sheep" among the hosts who had not followed the corona requirements to the letter should have been tapped on the fingers much earlier anyway.
Andrea Schneider can understand that there are catering entrepreneurs who are giving up in the face of various problems in the industry - in addition to Corona, this is above all the shortage of skilled workers.
“It's all just madness,” she sighs.
And admits that she was "very lucky" with the sale of her Zieglerbräu property to the city of Dachau in spring 2019 (we reported).
If she also had to maintain the venerable, listed building, then, she is sure, “we would no longer exist”.
