Showbiz is The coronacrisis cut deep in to the hotel and catering industry. All of the issues in our country, will remain closed until further notice, from the smallest, lunchbar, the largest michelin star restaurant. In this new series, we talk to 5 top chefs on how to coronacrisis and their “forced vacation” experience. Today, Wout Bru (51) in menu cards are looking. He was already in a severe financial dip, and know of what he speaks. “My heart bleeds for all the young, budding catering entrepreneurs. They are going to very, very, very tough time ahead of it.”
“Unreal, any other word that I don’t have to do this,” sigh, Wout Bru, who, along with his partners Marc Coucke and Bart and Maarten, restaurants, and hotels in this town to run the show. “In the evening it was announced that all the restaurants had to close, it was the perfect container for all of our restaurants. The guests were attracted to the region, and the pousse-cafe, but in my head, the air was just one more thing: what’s next?”
The next day, there was nothing in the refrigerator’s empty, and everything was still once more, a thorough brushing of the teeth, to give, to everyone, to temporary unemployment, and then… in The car, in the back car. On the road from the town of Durbuy took me a serenity, a peace, I don’t know, like I’m in for most of my adult life, yet had never experienced before. With three weeks to go! At least! You need to know is that I have never been more than a couple of days of vacation I have taken. Soon, the plane to Barcelona or Rome. And now all of a sudden I have three weeks of vacation.”
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, But soon came to the realization that the holiday is not so very, very, very much, if you are not able to get away. “For the first few days, I’ve been dealing with things that normally don’t come up. The terrace is clean. Great safe to keep in your wardrobe. But it was only for a couple of days. I’m not the type that throughout the day you can set foot in. Well, one day it may be, but not a week. And certainly not for three weeks. I should be working on. I need to exercise so I often go jogging, and at the recommendation of my brother, I am also re-cycling. I go now about every two days on the bike. I had forgotten how much of a pain you have to your bottom of it. Well, if that is the case…”
