Cologne - now suggests the economic crisis - in the Weetschaff op d'r Eck: traditional pubs need to file for bankruptcy or are empty.
New tenants are not in sight. That has an impact on the whole Veedel. EXPRESS was a special pub-crawl.
Station in knick-knacks. Tradition for 95 years - Em gold Kappes on Neusser Strasse. Guarantee of top-fermented and kölsche tasty dishes. Matthias Becker landlord then had to file for bankruptcy. Now the cap is tight.
"Actually, I would have taken it gladly," said John Becker, gastro-big business. "But the administrator expects that I take almost all employees, also inside and outside the house is a listed building - this simply did not expect."
Second stop, Südstadt: That's 106 years old "Schmitz Lang" on the road already Severin durchstartete some ups and downs of 2006 with a new tenant, there's hope. Now, since 28 January this year, once again shift. Another new tenant is being sought.
Hold on Eigelstein: Since last autumn, the "Eigelstein", formerly "Spitz closed". Interested parties have been many. One of them says: "I looked at the store with the beautiful location. But you'd have a lot of money in your hand - too risky at this time. "The Future of the best house on the place remains as uncertain.
We are in the city: Juergen Danne forest, host of Cologne's oldest Shell House, the "Bieresel" on the width of road, go another way: "I have introduced short-time working with us virtually, reducing the opening times each day at 30 minutes. How can I keep my permanent employees for a while. "Whether this is sufficient for survival in the long run, he did not know.
Off to Agnesviertel. At least here there is hope. For the brewery "Stüsser" on the road Neusser, which has been months. "In about seven weeks we are likely to reopen," said Wilfried Schwab from its famous beer wholesalers and Lütticke Tschirschnitz. "The contract with the new tenant is nearing completion."
Only a few examples of the radical change at the Cologne gastronomic landscape. More and more restaurants makes it more and more faced with the Off.
Only the euro price hikes shock, then the smoking ban, now the economic crisis.
Since 2000, it is steadily downward, with the industry. In the city there were times 3500 restaurants. Since the late 90s had lost hundreds of Cologne, estimates of the association. There is no end in sight.
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