Certain dates for reopening of bars and restaurants are “a big step forward, the request that was also made in the demonstrations of recent days was in fact to get out of the uncertainty in order to plan the opening to the public of the premises. “Thus the starred chef Cristina Bowerman comments with time.news the new communications of the government on the reopening graduals of public establishments, where it is expected that on April 26, in the yellow areas, they can also open for dinner but only outdoors and from June 1 also indoors, but only for lunch.
“What I think is unfair is that there is a penalty without the announcement of a relief against who cannot open because it does not have outdoor tables“, says Bowerman, also as president of the Ambasciatori del Gusto association, representing the category since his restaurant in Trastevere in Rome has this possibility.
Another penalizing aspect is the maintenance of the curfew at 10 pm. “The curfew for restaurants is a big damage” says Bowerman who is categorical on the issue of gatherings and measures to eliminate them: “We must totally eliminate the consumption of alcohol on the street – he explains – I lived for many years in America. ‘it is a ban, we also have it, for example in Rome there is an ordinance that after 11 pm you cannot drink alcohol on the street but the measures must be strictly enforced, as long as there is no enforcement and the responsibilities are not identified “.
“For example, – suggests Bowerman – if fourteen-year-old boys go around drunk on the street, their parents must be fined. Also during the day, there are gatherings outside the bars or emporiums of Bangladeshis who sell a bit of everything, maybe even for drink a cappuccino But then serious patrols are needed“.