Bars: a stroke and does it start in the Var?- Var-Matin

The counter of a coffee is the parliament of the people ”.If we share this thought from Honoré de Balzac, then democracy in France is bad.Indeed, while our country had some 600,000 bistros in the 1960s, there are less than 35,000 today!Not even one per commune.

Un drame à en croire le récent sondage ⁽¹⁾ sur « la place des cafés », qui nous révèle que pour 77 % des personnes interrogées, « le café joue un rôle central dans le lien social et le dynamisme économique ».However, these results are to be put into perspective since the survey in question is only interested in municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants.

Neighborhood bars too

If the disappearance of cafes strikes our campaigns above all, many bars of neighborhoods have also definitively lowered the curtain in cities.The reasons given are no longer the rural exodus, but the application of the ousted law prohibiting smoking in bars or the economic crisis.

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If he does not have specific figures, Patrick Mignano, Managing Director of Montaner-Pietrini Boissons in Toulon, confirms the trend."The number of bars is rather downward.Especially pure bars.To survive, many began to offer catering, a simple dish of the day for example ”.

Salvation goes through diversification

While specifying that "the hemorrhage seems to be finished in the Var", Jean-Pierre Ghiribelli, the president of UMIH 83, the union of trades and industries of the hotel industry, also encourages this diversification."Cafes are places of conviviality but they must question themselves.To continue to exist, bars need to be innovative, create events, offer more service and do some restoration ”.

Developments desired also by the inhabitants of small municipalities.According to the Ifop survey, "82 % of the inhabitants of rural communities find it legitimate that the cafes themselves diversify the activities they offer in order to continue and develop".

In the event that this is not enough, these same inhabitants, in a lesser proportion (77 %), are not opposed to an intervention by the municipality, whether in the form of financial assistance to an establishment or downright buy backof a coffee before entrusting its management to a private ...

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