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Restaurateurs in Italy complain about a lack of employees

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He belongs to a rare species: a man who serves breakfast in the center of Rome. In Italy, there has been a lack of service staff since the outbreak of the corona crisis. (Symbol image)

FABIO FRUSTACI

He belongs to a rare species: a man who serves breakfast in the center of Rome. In Italy, there has been a lack of service staff since the outbreak of the corona crisis. (Symbol image)

Above all, there was a shortage of permanent employees, explained Fipe’s deputy chief Aldo Cursano to the newspaper “La Repubblica” (Wednesday). In his restaurants and a bar in Florence, Tuscany, eight employees quit last year, according to Cursano. One had become a bricklayer, another went abroad. “Now I can’t keep my bars open all day.”

According to Monday’s Fipe announcement, many chefs and bartenders switched jobs. For months, the gastronomy in Italy could only work to a very limited extent due to corona restrictions and lockdowns. Fipe called on politicians to restore confidence in jobs and to signal that the “process of reopening” was irreversible.