(Tiper Stock Exchange) – Catering companies – strategic sector for the country system – are facing a long crisis alone and at their own expense, which began with the pandemic and has worsened over time, wearing down its assets to guarantee food, and therefore health and nutrition, for millions of citizens every day. A duty that companies feel right, but now unsustainable from an economic point of view. He reports it Legacoop Production and Services explaining that this situation “is putting hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk in the incomprehensible lack of interest of public decision-makers. This attitude risks causing an inevitable reduction in the service that could become permanent in the future, even more so should the rules on price revisions be approved within the current draft of the new Procurement Code”.
The cooperative catering companies belonging to Legacoop represent the most important part of a sector that distributesand over 1.3 billion meals a year, employs almost 150,000 people, of which over 80% are women, con a reference related industry, such as the agri-food sector, which, in turn, involves a much wider audience”, explains the note.
“It is a duty – declares Legacoop Produzione e Servizi – to inform public opinion and the many users/citizens and their families who, without urgent measures that recognize the adjustment of costs in existing and future contracts with public clients, there could be a generalized reduction in services to the detriment of patients, students and workers. We therefore adhere to the mobilization of the sector to ask, as has already been done in all institutional settings, that also for collective catering, as well as for the entire Services sector, be allowed what is rightly possible today for the Works sector , that is to say: the adjustment to the Istat indices of the prices of the contracts. We therefore ask for a urgent meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the Government for the opening of an immediate crisis table in the sector”.