Because they can no longer pay the rent: bakeries and butchers have to leave their shops

Created: 11/30/2022, 5:30 am

By: Andrea Kästle

They appreciated the togetherness in their shop: Ramona Kastenmüller and Daniela and Ingo Ruber.

© Andrea Kästle

The unusual store on Professor-Benjamin-Allee in Ebenhausen has been around for 13 years.

A combination of butcher shop, bakery and café.

But now the operators have to go out of business because they can no longer afford the rent.

Ebenhausen

- But not for long now.

At Christmas, both tenants leave the property that belongs to the Schäftlarn monastery - and start anew in new rooms in the village, albeit separately from each other.

Kloster as owner increases rent steadily

The reason why both butcher Ingo Ruber and Romana Kastenmüller, owner of the bakery, have looked for alternative quarters are, on the one hand, the regular rent increases since the monastery inherited the shop from Hermann Schmidt, a believer who had moved to Austria .

During Corona alone, the rent went up three times, says Ramona Kastenmüller, and nobody understood that at all.

Elsewhere, landlords asked their tenants whether it would help them if they were spared a little of the running costs.

Ruber expresses himself a little more clearly: "It's also a question of conscience."

Considerations for a second mainstay

But the increased costs were not the only reason.

At the beginning of 2022, Ingo Ruber began to think about whether it would not be something for him to take over the catering in the Baierbrunn Sports and Civic Center, which the community wants to revitalize there.

But the negotiations dragged on, he says.

At some point it became clear that the whole thing would not work out, but by that time he had already cut his cord from the business partnership with Kastenmüller.

And for her, Ramona Kastenmüller, it was clear that she would never be able to pay the rent on her own.

Togetherness from which everyone has benefited

When talking to the Münchner Merkur, everyone is sitting at the currently empty tables in the café, on the wall there is a brightly and brightly decorated Christmas tree, and there are also Christmas decorations on the tables.

Opposite is a card stand, a display with envelopes of all sizes, the bakery also has an integrated post office counter.

Everything went well together, the two now say, and of course they benefited from the fact that everyone had their regular customers, who would then take a look at their colleague's product range.

In other words, people who just wanted to quickly get a little ham for dinner might also take some bread with them.

And vice versa.

Ramona Kastenmüller slaps Ingo Ruber on the shoulder in a white coat, who keeps jumping up to answer the phone.

"We'll both cry when we leave here," she says, and: "It's not easy to part." Everything went "excellently," he says.

The bakery had already been in the 200 square meter space for two years before he set up the sausage and snack counter.

The customers would also have appreciated the synergy effect of working together in the store.

"Most of us have confirmed that," says Kastenmüller.

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Discussions bring only short-term improvement

She paid 2,700 euros warm a month when she moved in here 15 years ago.

The rent including heating is now 3200 euros.

Of course we talked to the monastery administration.

Then three months of additional costs were waived, which she had to pay later.

During Corona, both shops were open all day, only the café had to close.

Fresh start at new locations

The bakery will definitely be open until December 24th, butcher Ruber wants to phase out the offer here from mid-December.

It opens again on the Monday after Epiphany - in the former health food store in Ebenhausen next to the pharmacy.

Meanwhile, the bakery will not be closed due to the move, "we have to continue posting without interruption," explains Kastenmüller.

Their new address is the old fish shop in the shopping area on Wolfratshauser Strasse diagonally across the street.

There she has 120 square meters at her disposal, the rent is affordable at 1400 euros.

But she won't sell bread anymore, it's not worth it in the long run.

There will be pastries, cakes and tarts from Höflinger, and the postal service will also remain in place.

Otherwise, both of them want to establish a small café business again in their new premises.

Won't they compete with each other then?

They look at each other, they smile, they say, "No way."

Monastery administration does not want to comment

The monastery administration was not ready to comment, said Stefan Rührgartner on the phone, head of the monastery administration, they had had bad experiences with the press.