Moscow uncoded
21 July 2021 0 comments
In Moscow, the QR-code system was canceled
Moscow cafes and restaurants will now be able to decide for themselves whether to check QR codes from visitors. Those institutions that maintain the system will be able to work without observing other anti-weed measures.
Since Monday, July 19, the Moscow authorities have canceled the QR-code system in public catering, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. The mayor's office made this decision together with the government, two sources close to the Moscow authorities told RBC.
Sobyanin explained that most of the capital's companies managed to vaccinate 60% of employees. In total, more than 2 million people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 over the past month, he said.
Now organizations will be able to decide for themselves whether to require QR codes from visitors. In addition, cafes and restaurants in Moscow were allowed to work at night. Before that, only those who were fully vaccinated against coronavirus and received a QR code could visit catering establishments at night. Also, the work of children's playrooms and holding events in nightclubs, bars, discos and karaoke were allowed in the capital.
Restaurants and cafes that have not joined the QR-code system, after opening on July 19, will have to comply with all anti-epidemic requirements of Rospotrebnadzor, said the head of the Moscow Department of Trade and Services Alexey Nemeryuk. In those establishments that will maintain "COVID-free zones", visitors will be able to stay without masks and gloves, and tables can be placed closer than one and a half meters from each other, and it will also not be mandatory to measure the temperature of guests.
The QR-code system worked in Moscow for three weeks: it was introduced from June 28. You can get such a code after the vaccination is completed. It is also issued in the case of a transferred COVID-19, if no more than six calendar months have passed since the date of recovery. In addition, the code can be obtained with a negative PCR test, but in this case it is valid for three days from the date of receipt of the result.
So, in the first days after the introduction of the QR-code system by the Moscow authorities, the revenue of catering establishments decreased by about 20%, it follows from the data of the tax service on the flow of funds through cash registers. At the same time, the restaurateurs interviewed by RBC claimed that the losses were greater. "The guests were washed away from the verandas by a downpour, and almost no one came to the restaurant halls. As a result, we have a 50% drop in revenue in establishments with verandas, and up to 95% in restaurants without verandas, " Maxim Polzikov, managing partner and CEO of Ginza Project Moscow, told RBC. In turn, the founder of the restaurants "Meat&Fish", the commissioner in the field of restaurant business in the capital, Sergey Mironov, estimated a drop in the revenue of establishments at an average of 80%.
In two weeks, almost 200 restaurants were closed in Moscow, and 220 for the whole of last year, Anastasia Tatulova, the founder of the AnderSon chain and business ombudsman for small and medium-sized enterprises, told RBC. "In 2.5 weeks, we lost almost as many establishments as in the entire previous year, which was the hardest for the industry," she said.
According to Tatulova, the restaurateurs are glad that the authorities have heard them. Mironov also reacted in the same way, noting that the business is already "exhausted by the lockdown".
https://www.rbc.ru/society/19/07/2021/60f24ac69a79474d1251510a
Moscow cafes and restaurants will now be able to decide for themselves whether to check QR codes from visitors. Those institutions that maintain the system will be able to work without observing other anti-weed measures.
Since Monday, July 19, the Moscow authorities have canceled the QR-code system in public catering, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. The mayor's office made this decision together with the government, two sources close to the Moscow authorities told RBC.
Sobyanin explained that most of the capital's companies managed to vaccinate 60% of employees. In total, more than 2 million people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 over the past month, he said.
Now organizations will be able to decide for themselves whether to require QR codes from visitors. In addition, cafes and restaurants in Moscow were allowed to work at night. Before that, only those who were fully vaccinated against coronavirus and received a QR code could visit catering establishments at night. Also, the work of children's playrooms and holding events in nightclubs, bars, discos and karaoke were allowed in the capital.
Restaurants and cafes that have not joined the QR-code system, after opening on July 19, will have to comply with all anti-epidemic requirements of Rospotrebnadzor, said the head of the Moscow Department of Trade and Services Alexey Nemeryuk. In those establishments that will maintain "COVID-free zones", visitors will be able to stay without masks and gloves, and tables can be placed closer than one and a half meters from each other, and it will also not be mandatory to measure the temperature of guests.
The QR-code system worked in Moscow for three weeks: it was introduced from June 28. You can get such a code after the vaccination is completed. It is also issued in the case of a transferred COVID-19, if no more than six calendar months have passed since the date of recovery. In addition, the code can be obtained with a negative PCR test, but in this case it is valid for three days from the date of receipt of the result.
So, in the first days after the introduction of the QR-code system by the Moscow authorities, the revenue of catering establishments decreased by about 20%, it follows from the data of the tax service on the flow of funds through cash registers. At the same time, the restaurateurs interviewed by RBC claimed that the losses were greater. "The guests were washed away from the verandas by a downpour, and almost no one came to the restaurant halls. As a result, we have a 50% drop in revenue in establishments with verandas, and up to 95% in restaurants without verandas, " Maxim Polzikov, managing partner and CEO of Ginza Project Moscow, told RBC. In turn, the founder of the restaurants "Meat&Fish", the commissioner in the field of restaurant business in the capital, Sergey Mironov, estimated a drop in the revenue of establishments at an average of 80%.
In two weeks, almost 200 restaurants were closed in Moscow, and 220 for the whole of last year, Anastasia Tatulova, the founder of the AnderSon chain and business ombudsman for small and medium-sized enterprises, told RBC. "In 2.5 weeks, we lost almost as many establishments as in the entire previous year, which was the hardest for the industry," she said.
According to Tatulova, the restaurateurs are glad that the authorities have heard them. Mironov also reacted in the same way, noting that the business is already "exhausted by the lockdown".
https://www.rbc.ru/society/19/07/2021/60f24ac69a79474d1251510a