For many years, Christine Stieglbauer delivered the food for crèches and after-school care children at Tegernsee.
Now she wanted to raise the prices - and promptly received notice of termination from the parish.
Tegernsee
– It is a delicate story that is taking place between the Tegernsee Protestant parish and Christine Stieglbauer, the owner of the Tegernsee gastro and catering company “Flavours”.
It's about food for children, the hot topic of price increases and canceled contracts.
Evangelical pastor Weber does not want to “follow”
The evangelical pastor Martin Weber would prefer it if he didn't have to say anything about it.
He doesn't want to "step down" and talk about "internal" things, he says.
And yet, when asked, he explains what parents of crèche and after-school care children in Tegernsee, Rottach-Egern and Bad Wiessee have already heard from him in a circular - namely the termination of the long-standing food supplier.
Restaurateur delivered around 200 freshly cooked meals daily
Eleven years ago, Christine Stieglbauer founded her gastro company "Geschmackssachen", with which she has been based on Schwaighofstraße in Tegernsee-Süd since 2017.
In addition to breakfast, lunch and catering at events, the 53-year-old has also provided freshly cooked food for all children in the crèches run by the Protestant parish as well as the after-school care children in Tegernsee and Bad Wiessee for ten years.
She delivered almost 200 main meals a day – with soup or dessert, as desired.
She cooked with consideration for allergy sufferers as well as to the taste of Muslim children.
Each meal for crèche children cost 3.40 euros, 50 cents more for school children.
Once, most recently in 2017, she raised the prices.
Stieglbauer informed pastors in writing about the planned price increase
Because of the drastic price increases as a result of the Ukraine crisis, Christine Stieglbauer now felt compelled to propose a price increase to Pastor Weber.
"My main supplier advised me to propose an increase of 30 percent in view of further cost increases," reports Stieglbauer, who informed Weber in writing in mid-April about a planned increase from May.
"I assumed that we would sit down and talk about it," says the entrepreneur.
Evangelical pastor terminates the supply contract without further ado
But things turned out differently.
Because Weber apparently did not respond to this and, according to his own statement, "did not receive any other suitable offer", he canceled the supply contract without further ado, although there is talk of a six-month period.
Staff and the parents' council were involved in the decision, says Weber when asked.
He found it "socially difficult to demand such short-term adjustments," he then wrote to his parents and asked for their understanding for a transitional period of two weeks with soup and snacks.
Seehaus-Wirt and apetito now take care of the children
In the meantime, Weber has found new suppliers: Christian Wörner, landlord of the Bistro Seehaus in Tegernsee, is now responsible for the food for the crèche children, he reports.
The nationwide provider apetito provides around 120 meals in the after-school care center with frozen food that is heated and costs four euros per meal.
Stieglbauer is "humanly disappointed" after termination
"The 30 percent was certainly set high at first," admits Christine Stieglbauer.
"But I had hoped that we would sit down and find a solution." In addition, she did not know how to deal with the three employees who were hired especially for catering.
"We're not out and about as robber barons," she protests, emphasizing that she always reacted flexibly and accommodatingly, even in difficult Corona times, when cancellations due to group closures accumulated every day.
She was "humanly disappointed" that she did not get the opportunity to find a solution in a personal conversation.
You must now "let the topic sink".
With the Catholic kindergarten in Tegernsee, which she also supplies, she has found a solution to compensate for the explosion in costs.
In future, parents will have to shell out EUR 3.90 instead of EUR 3.40 per meal for their children.
"We managed to do that in consultation," says Stieglbauer.
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