A well-known restaurateur from St. Petersburg, Alexander Konovalov, spoke at Echo of Petersburg about the organized resistance of his colleagues to the new rules for visiting public catering establishments.
According to Alexander Konovalov, the owners of more than 40 different establishments are ready to openly boycott the instruction to serve customers exclusively with QR codes of immunity to covid. Otherwise, the businessman noted, much of the industry will collapse and go bankrupt.
"In the previous lockdown, we didn't stop work for a single day. We were able to keep the staff because of that. They feed their families. I went to other regions over the New Year's vacations. There were totally empty places. They will go bankrupt with a probability of 1200%," said the entrepreneur.
In addition to the open form of the boycott there is a tacit policy that other institutions want to use, Konovalov added. But this policy is fraught with closure of cafes and bars and even criminal cases for restaurateurs.