The office warns restaurateurs: After the closure, hosts are threatened with license revocation

Tuesday March 16, 2021

Office warns restaurateurs
After the closure, Wirten is threatened with license revocation

In the course of fighting the pandemic, innkeepers had to close their businesses, many of them for a year now. In addition to the damage already suffered as a result, there is now a risk of losing the license. Because it expires if a restaurant does not open for a year. For many, today is the deadline.

Many restaurants have closed for months. Opening up to customers who pick up food is simply not worth it for many – the employees on short-time work, always waiting for Corona help. And now there is a surprising warning from the authorities: Anyone who has closed their business for a year without interruption threatens to expire their restaurant permit. This applies above all to pubs, bars and clubs, many of which had to close not only since the most recent lockdown, but continuously since March 2020.

The city administration of Bad Waldsee wrote to all 75 restaurants and warned them. In the letter with the subject "Important information: expiry of the restaurant permit after one year of business closure", which is available to the "Schwäbische Zeitung", the establishments are informed that "according to Paragraph 8 of the Restaurant Act, the restaurant permit expires when the owner closes the business Has not exercised in a year. " According to the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics, this also applies to corona-related closings.

Many innkeepers struggling to survive are upset. And the city administration tries to appease. "We certainly did not want to annoy the hosts with this information letter, on the contrary, we see the letter as a support to prevent the deletion period from taking effect. In order to enable this message to be as informal as possible, we have deliberately provided an unbureaucratic response in the letter Call or email offered ", quoted the" Schwäbische Zeitung "a spokeswoman for the city administration.

Corona is considered an "important reason"

The hotel and restaurant association Dehoga Bayern has also drawn its members' attention to the Restaurant Act, "according to which the license expires if the owner has not started business within one year of the granting of the license or has not exercised it for a year. The deadlines can be extended if there is an important reason. "

The Bavarian Ministry of Economics has confirmed to the association that "the corona measures are also an important reason, as they are sovereign measures through no fault of the person concerned. An application for an extension of the deadline can therefore be made. This will be necessary in discos and clubs in particular . "

In fact, clubs were the first to close. "And will be the last to be allowed to reopen", as the Federal Association of German Discotheques and Dance Companies (BDT) announced. And because the deadline is not automatically extended, but has to be applied for, the companies concerned have to hurry. Because the one-year period expires today for hosts who have closed since the beginning of the first lockdown.