translated from Spanish: Gastronomic sector of the southern part of the country asks to review capacity conditions within the premises in view of the climate

With the new modifications of the Step by Step plan, the gastronomic sector will be able to have a respite with the capacity inside the premises with the vaccination pass. However, there is concern, mainly in the south of the country because of the climate constraints to focus measures still on the terraces.
The new measures mean that care in restaurants and soda fountains in enclosed space is only allowed to “attendees with Mobility Pass. Distance of 2m between tables (attendees with fixed location) or 2m between machines must be met, as appropriate and defined by the specific protocol for each activity. It requires meeting the ventilation standard.”
“From the gastronomic sector, we believe that this modification of the Step by Step plan is a step forward. We also believe that it considers several of the aspects that we had raised with the authority, such as, for example, the fact of being able to attend in phase 2 to vaccinated people inside the premises, which is also an incentive for those people who have not wanted to be vaccinated or have not been able to be vaccinated do so so as to also have greater freedom” , says the president of the Chilean Association of Gastronomy (Achiga), Máximo Picallo.
“We also understand that it is a good measure that the curfew is modified, we hope that several regions can access a later curfew, in addition to the fact that interregional mobility can be allowed will allow the tourism sector and, linked to the gastronomic sector can have activity hopefully in this winter break also , so as to start recovering all the jobs lost,” says Picallo.
In this regard, the leader supports that the measures targeted should be given greater freedom to those who have already been vaccinated. “We must strengthen everything that has to do with people who are already vaccinated having greater freedom and we can start to recover economic activity in the second half of the year. There have been many jobs that have been lost and I believe that it is very necessary then to be able to recover the economy based on the effort made by Chile in a successful vaccination plan,” he says.
The cold of the south
The southern sector of the country, especially the southern area, lives a different problem, since they can not make use of terraces like those that can be enjoyed in Santiago or in the central area. Faced with this bleak panorama for the tourist and gastronomic sector, the president of the Gastronomic Association of the region of Aysén, Patricia García Pereira, explains that since the social explosion they have not been able to function with tranquility, especially for the workers,”
We have had much more time closed than open, most of us are small entrepreneurs who have worked a lifetime to survive, pay our bills, educate our children, in a region that is also not easy, in a system of restaurants in which they work from Monday to Monday. So it is a difficult issue and the truth is that the restaurants at this minute are all on the verge of bankruptcy, they do not resist one more minute, we have asked the authorities, but so almost crying because we really do not give more”, he explains.
However, what is demanded in the south of the country is the capacity allowed and that public attention can be given within the premises. “We have been working on a campaign for two months, but strongly a month, working on meetings with the authorities, that is, many meetings, with Seremide Health, Economy, Sernatur, with Minister Paris, with parliamentarians, back again with the local authorities and we committed to prepare protocols to be able to work in phase 2 because we are asking to work in phase 2 but inside our premises with all the protocols that may exist” Designates.
“In this region you can not eat outside, here the maximum temperature is 6 ° degrees, and a couple of weeks ago we had -8 ° and for next week also come degrees below zero, that is to us we also do not have implemented most terraces, therefore they come to be the sidewalks, and eat on the sidewalk with rain , with wind, with cold, with snow water, with frost the truth is that nobody wants to do it, this couple of days I have some tables outside and I have it almost so that people can see that in reality the terraces in the south are not an option”, claims Patricia García.
Within the petition that was worked on a month ago, the leader declares that protocols were presented in a special way, askingthe Aysén region was a pilot region. “The characteristics in these regions are different from the rest of Chile, in the north, in Santiago there are still days when you can be sitting on a terrace, but in these regions, where the weather is tremendously icy, you bring a plate of food to the table and when you go two steps to the door the dish is already frozen , then you run the risk of making people sick and making your workers sick who have to go out in the open.”
That is why they made a request and a protocol to attend within the premises with protocols to all customers, considering also that the region has more than 92% of vaccinated with first dose and about 85% with second dose.
“We can no longer resist continuing with our premises closed and paying everything, because we are forced to pay the commercial patent, the contributions, the leases, the taxes of the workers who have them in unemployment insurance, and if we do not generate any, where can we get that money? So we are very hopeful in today’s announcements we believe that today should come, by divine justice to be able to open in these regions that are inhospitable in the climate inside our premises with all the protocols, thanks to the fact that the vaccination numbers are within what they had been asking us for a long time. , closes Garcia.

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