Summary judgment: the hospitality industry is really staying closed
Sixty hospitality entrepreneurs demanded in summary proceedings that the hospitality industry be allowed to reopen. According to the entrepreneurs, the measures are excessively strict and killing for their hospitality businesses. Unfortunately, their demand was rejected. The hospitality industry is really staying closed.
The entrepreneurs see it all coming their way: using up their savings, applying for loans, the threat of bankruptcy. They consider the closure an excessively severe measure, which moreover feels unfair because saunas and casinos are allowed to remain open. One of the claimants points out that the measures are strictly enforced in restaurants and cafés, while people are now meeting friends at home for a bite and a drink, completely forgetting those measures in the process.
Colleagues in Berlin
The lawyer for the hospitality entrepreneurs also referred to the court case that was brought in Berlin. There, eleven hospitality entrepreneurs protested against their cafés closing earlier, and the judge ruled in their favor. ‘When an earlier closing time is called disproportionate, what does a complete closure amount to?’ the entrepreneurs’ lawyer wonders.
Ruling: staying closed
The summary proceedings came before the court on Tuesday, and the judge rejected the hospitality entrepreneurs’ demands. The reasoning behind that decision will follow in the coming weeks, but the decision remains unchanged: the restaurants and cafés must stay closed.
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Source: Misset Horeca
