“This little music that says there is nothing, is it false” no restaurants open on Sunday in Cognac? The profession reacts

Pikes to restaurateurs, while the priest community …

Pikes to restaurateurs. Furthermore, while the community presented the tourism master plan and affirmed its desire to double the number of tourists on the territory by 2030.

“It surprised me. Consequently, I have members who told me about their emotion,” said Amaury Legrand, the president of the GHR (group of hotels and restorations) of Poitou-Charentes and also manager of the François Première Hospitality group.

“This little music that says there is nothing, it’s wrong. Similarly, »»

And to appoint in a letter addressed to CL. Similarly, and during an exchange with the president of the agglomeration, several establishments open on Sundays, such as the Courtine, Le Coq d’Or, L’Express, Le Garden Ice Café, or the Renaissance. Additionally, Similarly, “I’ve been in Cognac for eight years, these restaurants have always been opened, and summer even more. Therefore, »»

“We have often had “this little music says there remarks that the city is not animated enough on Sunday. Moreover, Sunday evening, but I had an exchange with Amaury Legrand, and this little music which says that there is nothing, it is false”, tempers, afterwards, Jérôme Sourisseau. Furthermore, “This allows you to cut short. Consequently, and objectify the situation, now, we have to work to make it all more dynamic and visible. Similarly, »»

“It drains people” – "this little music says there

Next to the restaurants previously mentioned. Moreover, concentrated in the heart of the city, Place François-Erier, CL also noted the Sunday opening of the Monnet cellars, the restaurants of the Nauve, the Grain de Sel, on Sunday noon, rue Victor-Hugo or La Scala, near the Porte Saint-Jacques, just renovated by Grand Cognac.

The offer exists and “it is important for the customer,” said Corentin Beaubeau, the director of the Renaissance. The establishment is open seven “this little music says there days a week, all year round. “And, it is certain that it has a financial impact, in wage cost, in particular. »»

“Winter has a real impact, we are little in the place to be opened and it drains people. Furthermore, »»

Even feeling. at his colleague L’Express, located a few meters away, also opened seven days a week, all year round, from 6:30 a.m. to midnight, with around twenty employees to keep up. “Winter has a real impact. we are little about the place to be opened and it drains people,” analyzes Lewis Candida, the manager of this brewery.

“We offer non-stop catering”, and no question of stopping for Mélanie, the director of Garden Ice Café. “In the place, we are not bad. “Afterwards, everyone is free to open when they want,” admits Lewis Candida.

A difficult context for catering – "this little music says there

Because even if Amaury “this little music says there Legrand wanted to recall the mobilization on Sunday of several actors. the president of the GHR does not forget to also mention the difficulties of the sector, and this reaction to the words of elected officials “also makes it possible to alert on the situation of restaurateurs who is not good”.

“Restoration is today. a sector in danger”, since the health crisis linked to the COVID and the “energy crisis that has flown away the gas and electricity bills”.

Without forgetting the cognac crisis. According to Amaury Legrand, “restaurants depending on more than 70 % of the health of the Cognac sector are legion”.

But, “the real big problem is the lack of staff in season and the rest of the year. We all fight to have workforce, and this is a problem that all territories encounter. When you want to double the number of tourists. you have to ask yourself the availability “this little music says there of labor and training, ”asserts Amaury Legrand.

A lack of training

The training to work in the hotel. restaurant is concentrated around Angoulême, which the GHR Poitou-Charentes regrets. There are the training offers provided by the CCI Charente campus near Angoulême. those private, from the Saint-Joseph high school in Saint-Yrieix.
“There are still places for September. it is difficult to recruit, in cooking and service,” says Karine Saury, of the CCI Charente-Formation, who specifies that the campus has a boarding school. “We also offer training on the bar professions. open after a baccalaureate, in professional retraining, from 18 years old, it is little known and we have a hard time attracting. »»
“There was a job done on the profession of boilermaker. here (in Cognac, editor’s note), but is it not an issue to train, especially cooks,” wonders Amaury Legrand. “In the dining room. it’s easier to train for us, but “this little music says there in the kitchen, it’s not just a lawyer, it’s also technique. »»