"Regularly booked up to the last seat": Popular restaurant has to close anyway
Created: 08/17/2022, 09:35 am
By: Volker Camehn
Service staff are scarce in gastronomy.
Many have left during the lockdowns and never returned.
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The shortage of skilled workers is mercilessly noticeable: from August 20th, the Thai Fai restaurant on the church square in Oberhaching will be history.
The reason: there is no staff.
Oberhaching
- After three years of fighting for survival, it's over, explains owner Andreas Zollner at the request of the Munich Merkur. The Thai Fai is extremely popular.
"We're regularly fully booked here, right down to the last seat," says Andreas Zollner.
The success with an extensive lunch and dinner menu was no longer manageable: Because the reason for the business closure was "lack of staff", explains Zollner.
"We just can't find any people, neither for the kitchen nor for the service." And now his strength and his team have just reached the end.
Shortage of staff: Gastronomy hit hard by the shortage of skilled workers
Andreas Zollner and his restaurant are not an isolated case: Today, there is a shortage of skilled workers, especially in the catering, hotel and tourism sectors.
A consequence of Corona: According to a new study by the Institute of German Economics (IW) in Cologne, hardly any other industry lost so many employees in the first year of the pandemic - 216,000 people looked for new jobs in other areas.
And they rarely came back: around ten to 15 percent of the positions for specialists in the hospitality industry are vacant, said Thomas Geppert, state manager of the Bavarian Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) recently to Merkur.
You can find more current news from the district of Munich at Merkur.de/Landkreis München.
