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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.10 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
8 December 2015
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Group City Grill has recently announced the closure of two restaurants in Bucharest’s Old Town, with the immediate loss of 100 jobs. Both restaurants were located in high seismic risk buildings and were closed after the enforcement of a new safety law (282/2015) which requires business owners to complete consolidation works on high seismic risk buildings.
The safety measures imposed by the law are affecting many other restaurants and businesses in Bucharest’s Old Town, but City Grill is the first to announce job reduction measures.
Mr. Marian Alecu, one of the owners of the City Grill Group, commented that both restaurants are located in old buildings with over seven floors and consolidation work on these buildings is time consuming and very costly.
Sources
24 November 2015: Profit.ro
8 December 2015: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2015), City Grill, Closure in Romania, factsheet number 85700, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85700.
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