Italy's "Chinese Street" news: In the two years of the New Year, the epidemic and inflation ghost followed and lingered. The editor of Huaren Street has listened to the complaints of many street friends who run restaurants, complaining that it is not easy to maintain the operation of restaurants, but helplessly, the entire catering industry in the latest market report, the prospects for recovery are still bleak, and it is still far from returning to the normal level before the epidemic.
According to the 2021 Italian catering industry report just released by Fipe Confcommercio, one of Italy's major chambers of commerce, more than 23,000 restaurants or businesses have left the market in Italy in the past 2021, and if you add 2020 data, since the outbreak of the epidemic, the number of restaurants that have always closed the roller shutters throughout Italy is estimated to reach more than 45,000.
In contrast to the tide of closures, there is a trickle of newly opened restaurants, with less than 10,000 new restaurants (8,942) opened in Italy in the past year, and more than 30% of newly registered restaurants in 2019 have fallen during the epidemic forever.
As one of the industries that have been hit hardest by the epidemic, the catering industry, which has been shut down and shut down for a whole year, has lost at least 34 billion euros in operating volume in 2021 compared with the epidemic era before 2019...
The lingering market downturn has also led to a large loss of employees in the entire catering industry in Italy, with the number of employees decreasing by 193,000 compared with 2019, and at least one-third of restaurants in the survey said that the number of employees in the store has decreased.
According to a survey by Fipe Confcommercio, the soaring cost of raw materials and gas, electricity and electricity has become the most important problem in the catering industry at present, 87% of operators have to silently swallow up to 50% of the energy bill and 20% of the cost of raw materials, and the high price further squeezes the restaurant operating space.