Covid: Fipe, for 6 out of 10 public establishments resumed only in 2023

2021 was the year of the restart for only 16% of public businesses whose turnover grew, but never more than 10%. For 73% of entrepreneurs, on the other hand, the decline in the volume of business was vertical, due to long limitations with a consequent reduction in consumption. Italians spent over 24 billion euros less on restaurant services than in 2019, equivalent to 27.9%. To illustrate the state of health of the sector, the Fipe-Confcommercio research office, the Italian Federation of Public businesses, thought of it in its traditional annual report, created in collaboration with Bain & Company and Tradelab, presented in Rome in the presence of President Lino Enrico Stoppani and Romina Mura, president of the Labor Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. The restrictions imposed to contain the pandemic are still making their effects felt, the sudden and persistent rise in the prices of raw materials and energy is causing growing uncertainty among entrepreneurs. this dynamic, and the relative climate of mistrust that has developed around the sector, resulted in the disappearance of 194 thousand jobs compared to the pre-covid period “. In addition, the report highlights that for the second consecutive year the sharp slowdown in the birth of new businesses, 8,942 in 2021, against a surge in business terminations, 23,000. Between 2020 and 2021, over 45 thousand companies have closed their doors.