The weekend balance for bars and restaurants could be worse, but reports point to impacts of the methanol crisis on distillate sales. Despite the perception that there was no such abrupt drop in the movement of establishments, the reduction in beverage consumption such as whiskey, vodka and gin reached 80% in the city of São Paulo.
The director of the Paulista Association of Bars, restaurants, events, nightclubs, similar and the like (hurry), Denis Rezende, points to a drop in this level in the bars of the capital and states that there was growth in the consumption of beer, wine and alcohol beverages in the enterprises. “It was better than I imagined,” he told the Infomoney.
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The heat that arrived in the city over the weekend contributed, in the evaluation of entrepreneurs, to better than expected, at least at the first moment. According to the partner of the Azim group, Fausto Saez, after a weak Friday, the group’s houses were crowded at various times on Saturday and Sunday.
“We had a general drop in the movement of 20% and a reduction of about 80% in the Distillate Vedas. On the other hand, there was a significant increase in beer and beer sales,” he says. “We sold some distillates, especially for frequent clintes,” reported the partner of houses such as Post 6, Salve Jorge and Patriarch.
Similar result was noted by the partner of Zero Bar, Vitor Yu. The house located next to the Batman alley in Vila Madalena, a bohemian stronghold of Sao Paulo, sold the equivalent of about 18% of the average “a normal week” drinks. The main substitute was beer.
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“We are more focused on selling drinks, so we feel that difference a lot. Most customers didn’t want to consume drink. Just beer and canned drinks,” says Yu. “This for us is terrible, because the beer margin is much lower than the drink. Drink helps us much more in terms of profitability.” Billing, he says, was 60% of the average other weeks.
Bars and restaurants that the repercussion of methanol poisoning cases would have in the sector. Although not yet consolidated data, the executive president of the Brazilian Association of Bars and Restaurants (Abrasel), Paulo Solmucci, says that the weekend “seems to have been good for most”.
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“Upper class regions in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte seem to have suffered a little more,” he said.
