Restaurant terraces on the Croisette in Cannes on July 14, 2020. – SYSPEO / SIPA
A little hope for the end of the crisis. Restaurants with a small terrace with a few tables will be exempt from the 50% gauge that applies in theory from the reopening of May 19, but will have to install partitions (plexiglass, plants …) between the tables, announced on Wednesday. government.
“We cannot make a gauge when there are four tables or six tables, and therefore the principle is that there are separations between the tables, physical separations, in order to allow protection, so it can be a plexiglass can be plants, it doesn’t matter, ”said Minister for SMEs Alain Griset.
Uncertainty about the criteria
Four, six tables? The exact criterion has not been defined. The minister also said: “When we are below seven, eight tables, ten tables, we can consider that there will be no gauge.”
“If you are a very small terrace, that you have four tables and that one asks you to pass to two, there I perfectly hear the restaurateurs who say to us: it is not worth the blow to reopen”, observed the minister. of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, on CNews. The Prime Minister will decide “during the day”, reported the latter.