Half of the restaurants is in danger of closing in 1 year

Hit by the fall in the movement and an accumulated inflation of 7% in 2016 in food, five out of ten owners of restaurants, cafeterias and bars Brazilians plan to go over the point or close the doors of your business in a maximum of 12 months. The given part of a survey of the National Association of the sector, Abrasel, with 1200 establishments, for the second quarter of the year and that''s still in the process of finalization. Another survey, complete of this week by ECD Food Service consultancy, points in the same direction. Conducted the sector. According to him, "who do not dry not working costs, management will have a difficult survival". Not for nothing, Our research shows that 34% of restaurants, bars and cafeterias with 160 bars and restaurants in five capitals (São Paulo, Rio, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and Salvador), it raises the main cause for dismay: the expressive fall in profits. Nine out of ten businessmen have suffered with adjustments from 10% in the price of inputs, but 43% failed to readjust the value of meals to consumers for fear of scaring even more the parish. "Things are tough, these people have no management," says Donna Enzo, Advisor of ECD. "What these entrepreneurs are doing is taking the cost increase. If they were accustomed to work historically with 15%, 18% margin, are now with 6% 8% profit ". For Donna, the current level of profitability can be seen as a limit stopped in the Red at the moment. "The profile of the restaurants more felt the drop in turnover and profit are the ones that work with menu of meals between $ 25 and $ 70," says the Association''s National President, Paul Solmucci. According to him, the establishments situated in this range of disbursement report a fall in revenue of up to 30%. It is in this group that meets Marcelo Fernandes, who owns five houses in São Paulo – Kiroshita, French Grocery, Clos, Flintstones Tradi and Attimo. "Our houses that operate between r $ 25 and 70 R$ felt enough, but is not good at any track," says the entrepreneur, which reduced the staff at 16%. The businessman says he felt a high of 37% in inputs, but that could not pass the Bill to the client. "We hold the prices and we''re betting on an improvement from the second half of next year," said Fernandes, who closed the French Grocer in the neighborhood of Partridges, in the first half. In Pirituba, the couple Joel and Yolanda Vasquez, owners of the red brick, not closed the deal, but came close to that decision. After a promising start in 2015, the restaurant began losing customers in the first quarter of this year. "Businesses around here have been sending employees away. In March, we went back almost to the level where we started last year, and we thought we''d close, "says he, who reached profit R$ 150 a day with small business, which offers 36 to 40 meals at lunch time, and today no profits more than 60 R$. "But we''re a little more confident. The last few weeks were better and the economy, I think, is going to improve, "he says, hopeful, just like Fernandes, Attimo. "We have to believe. That''s what I can do and hopefully a relief from the second half of next year. "