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Refugees from Ukraine help in the catering trade: "I would hire them again and again"

2022-06-28T07:14:13.797Z


Refugees from Ukraine help in the catering trade: "I would hire them again and again" Created: 06/28/2022, 09:00 By: Felicitas Bogner Landlady Katharina Goldner (standing left) is happy about her committed new employee in the service. The Ukrainian Vladyslava S. (standing right) has been working at the “Altwirt” in Wackersberg for a few weeks. © Arndt Pröhl More and more restaurateurs in Bad T


Refugees from Ukraine help in the catering trade: "I would hire them again and again"

Created: 06/28/2022, 09:00

By: Felicitas Bogner

Landlady Katharina Goldner (standing left) is happy about her committed new employee in the service.

The Ukrainian Vladyslava S. (standing right) has been working at the “Altwirt” in Wackersberg for a few weeks.

© Arndt Pröhl

More and more restaurateurs in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen employ refugees from the Ukraine in service and in the kitchen.

Where it works, it's a win-win situation.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - The brass band plays and music echoes through the beer garden from the Wackersberger "Altwirt".

It goes without saying that this attracts many guests when the weather is good.

But you need staff to run them.

And that is exactly what the hospitality industry is currently lacking.

In the "Altwirt", however, nobody waits long for food or drinks, because some service staff are out and about in the beer garden.

One of them is Vladyslava S. The 18-year-old from Dneper wears a long dirndl and her hair is braided.

She places a tray on a table and distributes Radler, Helles and apple spritzer in a targeted manner.

The young woman fled Ukraine to Germany with her boyfriend and family at the beginning of March.

Before that she studied design and fashion in Lviv.

We are happy about our new service force.

Katharina Goldner, "Old Landlord", Wackersberg.

She says happily that she is now employed here.

“My mum has also been working here for a few weeks.

She's in the kitchen." Landlady Katharina Goldner confirms this and reports: "We gave Vladyslava and her boyfriend shelter in a staff apartment.

Her parents stayed with our neighbors.” The young woman wanted to work in Germany as quickly as possible.

"Once everything was clarified legally and with the authorities, we hired her as a service assistant," says Goldner.

The host couple is happy about that: "It's currently difficult to get staff.

We are happy about our new waiter.” Vladyslava would learn German quickly and diligently.

“She is currently helping our waitresses.

She is at the tavern and can also take drink orders herself, she knows the words and sentences,"

The restaurateurs have also made a stroke of luck with Vladyslava's mother.

“She has already worked in a large kitchen in Ukraine.

Of course you notice that.”

Refugees have to reconcile job and integration course

Mother and daughter would now have full-time employment.

The only hurdle is the daily organization.

"The two of them are doing an integration course that takes place for a few hours in the afternoon, so they always have to go away.

But we can manage that, too,” says Goldner.

The fact that Vladyslava lives right next to her new job is a huge advantage.

Rafal Dzygalo, Managing Director of the Karwendelblick Hotel and Restaurant on Walchensee, knows this.

He too is desperately looking for staff for the hotel and restaurant.

He would be happy to have refugees from Ukraine work for him.

“We are even in contact with some.

Because a former employee of ours comes from Ukraine, but he has to fight there and can't get out of the country," reports Dzygalo.

“The problem is the accommodation.

As a small hotel, we can't do without any of our 16 rooms.” Arriving and departing from further away is almost impossible without a car.

“There are no more buses going to Kochel when we call it a day,” explains Dzygalo.

Bank consultant from Odessa works at the "Tölzer Hütte" in Brauneck

Katharina Guggenbichler, landlady of the monastery tavern in Dietramszell, is also looking for staff.

But to date, no Ukrainians have been employed there either.

"We've already thought about it, but I see the language barrier as a big problem in service," she says.

"We're too remote for someone without a car."

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Georg Glassner has already hired one refugee at the Tölzer Hütte in Brauneck and is satisfied.

“We received an application from a Ukrainian and she has been with us since June.

It's difficult to find staff, so we were really happy." The bank advisor from Odessa only speaks English, "but that's not a problem for most of the guests," says Glassner.

"In addition, she learns German every day, that happens along the way." The 26-year-old is employed full-time at the hut.

"With the social welfare here, she wouldn't actually have to work.

But she wants it and packs accordingly.

I would hire them again and again,” says the landlord.

Three Ukrainians work in the Waldherr-Alm in Wackersberg

Gabriele Papesch reports something similar from the Wackersberger Waldherr-Alm.

Three Ukrainians have been working here since April – a mother with her son and her sister.

The two women have full-time jobs as kitchen helpers, and the son works at the weekend on a 450-euro basis.

During the week he does an internship in a computer company.

“We had two vacancies in the kitchen and also a vacant apartment in Tölz.

So I turned to an acquaintance who is active in refugee aid and asked if she could mediate,” reports Papesch.

In April, the refugees would have received state aid.

“They have been self-sufficient since May.

They have a rental and employment contract and can get by like that.” She helped and translated with the official and administrative procedures.

Papesch is also happy about the new employees.

“They already know the kitchen words.

Everyone is still waiting for a place on a German course, from then on it will definitely be better.”

By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Bad Tölz newsletter.

You can read all further information on the Ukraine war and its effects in Bavaria here on our Ukraine refugees topic page.

Source: merkur

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