The nightlife industry has had enough: – Have never felt more lonely

RACE AGAINST BIGGER: Paal Mangerud runs the concert venue Blå in Oslo and is a former Labor politician. Now he is disappointed with the government. Photo: Frode Hansen, VG / Privat

– Jonas Gahr Støre says that no one should stand alone in this crisis, but I have never felt more lonely, says Paal Mangerud. He is one of the largest owners in the nightlife industry in Oslo and previously elected to the Labor Party.

Paal Mangerud is a co-owner of a number of nightclubs in Oslo, including Blå, Internasjonalen, Bonanza and Feber.

– The Labor Party was tough in opposition and criticized the government, but how they treat this industry is outrageously bad. In Oslo’s nightlife alone, almost 20,000 people work, and there are workers that the Labor Party should have been interested in taking care of, but the Støre government seems to be giving blanks, the former Labor politician thunders.

– Jonas Gahr Støre says that no one should be left alone in this crisis, but I have never felt more lonely.
Rebellion against the scheme In mid-December, the government again decided on a national ban on drinking, for the time being for four weeks. This has already led to several bankruptcies. A national appeal has also been launched against the decision and the parties MDG, Frp, Venstre and SV have submitted demands to abolish the scheme . Also The Labor Party’s own mayors has called for a reassessment of the measure. VG has written there are no other countries in Europe who have gone for the same pouring strategy as Norway to beat down the corona infection.

Paal Mangerud warns of the crisis it brings.

– Either support schemes must be in place or so the occupational ban must be lifted now. Because this is in reality a professional ban for everyone who works in the nightlife industry, he says.

LOSES THE JOB: – When the bankruptcies soon come, thousands of people will lose their jobs, fears nightlife entrepreneur Paal Mangerud. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB

After the liquor ban was introduced in December, he had to shut down all his places and lay off employees.

– For us who live by selling alcohol, there is no alternative. It is a major crisis we are facing if this continues. The reason why we have not seen so many bankruptcies yet is because VAT and the employer’s tax have been postponed through the pandemic with an eight percent interest rate, which provides extra revenue to the state. Now the bill comes, and there will be a landslide of bankruptcies, says Mangerud.

has worked with nightlife for almost 20 years and now sees that everything he has created is about to disappear.

– It’s not like we lose a little money, here life’s work perishes. At the same time, we see that other companies take out record dividends.

to operate pays 40 million kroner in tax every year. – Other companies make a million profit on the support schemes and take out dividends, while the nightlife industry gets virtually nothing. At the same time, no industry has been hit as hard as the nightlife industry, says Mangerud.

He believes that the support schemes are made for large companies and groups at the expense of the small and family companies and wonders if this is what the Labor Party and the Center Party want.

Had to close in Trondheim

The bar stop has also forced the restaurant Credo in Trondheim to be temporarily closed.

– We have had to do this every time there has been a full stop to drinking during the pandemic, says driver and owner Heidi Bjerkan.

KEEPS CLOSED: Heidi Bjerkan runs the Trondheim restaurant Credo which has a Michelin star. Photo: Hanna Kristin Hjardar, VG

– It’s about the earnings basis. And even though we have alternatives to alcohol, we experience that the guests disappear, because they want

whole the experience.

She has a hard time understanding the reason why it was necessary to introduce a full bar stop for eating restaurants as well.

– At least I have not received any information that it helps the infection to prevent people from having a glass of wine with their food. Introducing a full liquor ban I interpret as a message from the government that it is not desirable that we should have restaurant operations at all.

Photo: Hanna Kristin Hjardar, VG

An intermediate solution with a bar stop from 10 pm had helped a restaurant like Credo. – Then we would have opened the doors on the contrary, says Bjerkan, who works to keep the motivation up with his employees. They are not currently laid off. At Credo, time is spent on courses and skills development while they wait to be able to open again. – You can get quite annoyed by this here. I feel that the restaurant and culture industry are the ones who have had to take the brunt, while the capacity in the health care system has not increased any during these two years. As I understand it, that’s why we now have to shut down again. I think that is a strange priority.

– There will be no changes in the measures before 14 January . We are sticking to that, says State Secretary Ole Henrik Bjørkholt (Labor Party) in the Ministry of Health and Care Services to NRK on Tuesday night.

THE MINISTER OF HEALTH: – Infection is high in several areas of the country and there is also greater uncertainty when it is holiday time and Christmas. So we will make a new assessment on January 14, at the same time as we follow the situation day by day, says the Minister of Health to VG. Photo: Torstein Bøe / NTB

Minister of Health and Care Services Ingvild Kjerkol (Labor Party) will not say what will happen to the measures in the future In front of TV 2, she emphasizes that the pouring stop is based on professional advice:

– We received a clear recommendation from FHI and the Norwegian Directorate of Health about a national liquor ban to prevent omikron from spreading in such a way that it affected the capacity and emergency preparedness in the health services.

At the same time, she says that she understands the mayors who are now frustrated.

– The mayors will take care of their municipality and business, and stopping drinking is an intrusive measure. It is a national bar stop, so it does not fully take into account the local infection situation, says Kjerkol.

Espen Nakstad also agrees that the bar stop measure goes far beyond the catering industry.

– But is there such a big difference between drinking water or wine with your food when you go to a restaurant? – The risk of infection in a restaurant depends on how many people are present, how crowded it is and how long you are there, Nakstad says to VG.

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