The president of the National Chamber of the Restaurant Industry (CANIRAC), Claudia González Góngora, said that Mother’s Day is used “to celebrate the queen of the house, our mother. She reiterated that on May 10 there is always an increase in sales in Yucatán.
From the restaurant sector he said that the benefits had not been experienced again since before the pandemic began, so this year they are forecasting good expectations.
“May is a month in which social dynamism generally increases within the citizenry […] we have the theme of May 10, which is undoubtedly one of the days with the greatest increase in sales in the restaurant sector throughout the year”.
In addition to this, he pointed out that May 15 will also be a positive date for the sector, since on Teacher’s Day, teachers also go out to have breakfast and celebrate their day.
“We closed the first quarter with very positive numbers for the restaurant sector, let’s remember that we were the sector hardest hit by the pandemic, the last to have the necessary conditions to operate at 100 percent.”
This year, he said, he expects the sector to start growing and stop being just a recovery.
He emphasized that the benchmark for the restaurant industry, after the Covid-19 pandemic, are the numbers before the coronavirus, taking that as being in a 100 percent recovery; “at the beginning of this year we already had in terms of human capital occupation the numbers in formal jobs that we had before the pandemic, we had already surpassed them”.
During the pandemic, he pointed out, there was a 20 percent loss in food and beverages throughout Yucatan; a figure that has already been recovered and even surpassed, however, “we could not say that we had a generalized economic recovery in the sector”.
On the surface, the restaurants are full and that is why they are often questioned as to how they still do not have the pre-pandemic figures, but their survival during that time had the same expenses without the same income, so not all restaurants have been able to recover from the loans or personal wealth investments they made, he explained.
“This year it is expected that we will not only have the pre-pandemic numbers but that we could already talk about their recovery, we have already passed the survival stage and now we are betting on economic growth in the activity”.
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