VAT up, sales down? Restaurant owners warn against charging 19 percent for food again instead of just seven percent. You wonder who else will come if going to a restaurant becomes 12 to 15 percent more expensive. Visiting unsettled restaurateurs.
Anyone who regularly visits Thomas and Corinna Eberlein’s inn knows the regular guests at the Augustiner Bürgerheim. For many people, the restaurant is their second living room. People know each other, nod to each other and like to eat a schnitzel with their freshly tapped beer. Where: These are two pieces of meat in breading with an impressive mountain of fries for the price of 15.80 euros. “If the VAT rises by twelve percentage points, we will have to add that to the price, and our schnitzel will then be two euros more expensive,” says Thomas Eberlein.