Restaurateurs to the Government: 'With low regional Rt why don't we open for dinner?'

If the Rt contagion index is low, if the region is in the yellow zone and commercial activities are open, why can't restaurants work for dinner or on weekends, can't they carry out their activity safely, as happens for a shop or an office?

Tni – National Business Protection, which represents 40 thousand Italian companies in the world Hospitality (bars, restaurants, hotels), asked this question to the prefects of the regions that are now in the yellow zone. The Federation sent them, and for information to the Ministers of Economy and Productive Activities Roberto Gualtieri and Stefano Patuanelli, a letter asking them to provide the data that identifies public establishments as places of contagion and on the basis of which the closures were imposed by the government.

Tni also asks the prefects "to immediately free the activities of the Horeca sector from the limits in force until now that have now brought the entrepreneurs of the sector, their employees and suppliers to a state of desperation" and that "they act as intermediaries to obtain immediate compensation for the damages suffered by the closures".

“If there are no answers or compensation by Thursday,” announced the spokesperson for Tutela Nazionale Imprese and president of Ristoratori Toscana, Pasquale Naccari, “we will be forced, for the survival of ourselves, our families, our employees and our suppliers, to immediately reopen our premises to the public, even for dinner.” “We have been respecting all the rules for ten months,” he added, “but hundreds of thousands of companies are dying and we have the right to read the documents that explain and demonstrate the scientific evidence of the obligation to close public establishments for dinner and on weekends. The Government must also compensate us.

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The compensations received to date represent on average only 2,5% of the turnover of our companies”. The initiative is promoted by Tni-Tutela Nazionale Imprese in collaboration with Acs Associazione Commercianti per Salerno, AIOS Palermo, Territorial Committee of Traders. Movimento Impresa Lombardia, Movimento Impresa Puglia, Passione Ho.re.ca. Puglia, Restaurateurs Liguria, RistorItalia, Restaurateurs Lombardy, Restaurateurs Tuscany, Restaurateurs Veneto, Restaurateurs Lazio, Restaurateurs Campania, Restaurateurs Puglia, Restaurateurs Trentino, Veneto Imprese Unite.