With prices for all budgets, due to the situation left by the Hurricane Otisat least 30 restaurants, adhered to the National Chamber of the Restaurant and Seasoned Foods Industry (Canirac) in Acapulco, that opened “Otis way” will be offering Christmas and New Year dinners.
In this variety of dishes offered by open restaurants and through social networks, the president of Canirac, Enrique Castro Soto He said that also to reactivate its economy Housewives with good seasoning and chefs who lost their jobs are selling Christmas dinners.
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He explained that 37 businesses out of 120 that have joined the Canirac They are working at full speed to be able to reopen “Otis Mode” which is reduced menus, facilities without roofs, improvising tents and tarps but with a lot of effort.
“With a reduced menu, with facilities perhaps not in perfect conditions, without a roof, but with everything necessary to be able to serve so they will be operating the restaurants that have opened in Acapulco.”
He said that there is a greater diversity of prices and there is no increase in dishes compared to last year.
“Today there is a wide range of dinners and We have seen packages of three people for a thousand pesos and more elaborate packages and now there is something for all budgets.”
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He said that restaurateurs have found all the raw materials necessary to make Christmas and New Year’s dinners, but they have had problems acquire construction materials and labor to repair restaurants that suffered damage from the meteor.
He considered that sales are on a positive note but only for those businesses that are opening and “we have a prospect of 30 percent of restaurant offering that will reopen”
In that sense, he said that the other 70 percent of restaurants will not be ready to be in operation in December and 30 percent are having very good answer on the topic of Christmas and New Year dinners.
He said that the fact that there is less supply allows us to better cover demand and for those businesses that They are in operations, they are going to have a good end to the year..
30 percent of the restaurants that have opened in Acapulco have done so with their own resources since credit to businesses is stopped, “today 55 days later we have no credit support and By the end of the year, 30 percent of restaurants will be working.”
Chef Moy buys turkeys outside of Acapulco
Chef Moisés Felipe Rodríguez Valle of the “Del Sueño” pastry shop said that a few days before the Christmas dinner he has a 20 percent reservation, but he regretted that lThe inputs that will be used had an increase of 25 pesos more compared to last year.
Moy will offer a dinner package to its clients consisting for stuffed turkey and shredded leg with a cost of 6 thousand 500 to 3 thousand 500.
In Acapulco, the chef has found with the shortage of raw materials as is the case of turkey and he has had to go buy them in Chilpancingo.
“There are no turkeys in Acapulco, they had to bring them from Cuernavaca to Chilpancingo because there are none in Acapulco, I had to look for a foreign supplier.” He hoped that sales will improve in the coming days.
He said that the turkey and the leg rose 25 pesos more per kilo compared to last year and The prices of raw materials to make cakes also increased.
Note published in The Sun of Acapulco