{"id":589,"date":"2021-04-09T17:47:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2021-04-09T17:47:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T17:47:48","slug":"waiting-for-better-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/09\/waiting-for-better-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for better times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Last year wasn\u2019t good for gastronomy in Poland. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned out to be a serious challenge for the catering industry, which still employs around 1 million employees. Profits have dropped by as much as 90%, and nearly 30% of gastronomic establishments may not survive the crisis and will permanently disappear.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government&#8217;s decision in October 2020 to suspend bar and restaurant operations again due to the COVID-19 epidemic exacerbated the decline in revenues. Most of the premises experienced a decrease in turnover even before the introduction of the restrictions. One of the obvious consequences of such a situation is a scale of layoffs in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s worse, if the situation does not return quickly to normal, the next inevitable stage will be bankruptcy and many restaurants will disappear from the culinary map of Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polish cidermakers (but also winemakers and breweries) also have seen a decline in sales, and many of them lost their most profitable selling channel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/food-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-591\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/food-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/food-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/food-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/food-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/food.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report &#8220;The gastronomic market in Poland 2020&#8221;, 40% of gastronomy users supported their favourite places during the lockdown &#8211; they ordered meals, bought vouchers for later use, which allowed the restaurants to survive. You could order almost everything &#8211; from breakfast, through coffee, pastries and ice cream, to a 2-course meal with dessert. More than half of Poles were satisfied with the introduction of deliveries by restaurants, and a third of them regularly used this option. Many grassroots actions emerged on social media supporting takeaway ordering.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But is it enough for the catering industry to survive the worst crisis in years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year wasn\u2019t good for gastronomy in Poland. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned out to be a serious challenge for[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[185,43,187,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}