Hotels Corona is Now the Director of the pack and the apprentices anWie Swiss Hotels cope with the crisis: The Sorell RUTLI in Zurich and the Golf panorama in Thurgau Lipperswil remain open – thanks to the unusual roles.Christoph Ammann6 Kommentare6Nadine Lopez (left) and Filippa Gross (right) during the Corona-crisis, almost independently, the Hotel Rütli in Zurich’s Niederdorf.Photo: Thomas Egli
Filippa Large stand at five early on. The mommy picked it from the book am Irchel in Zurich’s wine country and down to Neftenbach near Winterthur. Change into the post car, in the train, at 6.30 am service Hotel Rütli will compete in the Sorell-in Zurich’s old town.
Outside Corona-times ends Filippas way to and from work in the Winterthur Marktgasse, where she graduated in the crown of the third year of the apprenticeship for a hotel specialist.
But the tradition hotel is currently, as in six out of seven Sorell-houses in Zurich. “The Rütli remains open, because we want to offer not only long-term guests a room, but also to guarantee the apprentices furthermore, the structure of a working life,” says Director Ariane Oswald. The Rütli is open at the moment as the only Hotel on the zähringerstrasse, the doors. The six neighbors have not made dense, even though the Hotels fall under the corona-induced Lockdown. “Economically, our project makes less loss, than if the Hotel would be closed,” admits Ariane Oswald, “we achieved in April 2020, only one-tenth of the turnover compared to the previous year.”
Filippa Large, together with the two other future Hotel clerks, Nadine Lopez and Laila Schweingruber and hotel communications expert Leon Gähweiler the President of the hotel crew. “They organize themselves, and the service plans,” says Oswald. “The normal operation, they cope very well. In the case of difficult decisions, a fellow member of the squad, or I can help.”
No Breakfast
Filippa assumes when joining the command from the night porter, the Breakfast in the Garni-Hotel. 20 of 58 rooms are occupied. Some of the guests want Room Service, resulting in a three-star-Superior-house practice is not usually in the big crisis, but no Problem. Only a few meals in the Breakfast room, where since mid-March, not a Buffet.
“I have a plate with sausage, receipts of goods, cheeses, and vegetables, serve drinks, bread and croissants to the table and all of what it needs for Breakfast,” says Filippa Large. Yoghurt and Bircher muesli waiting in glass jars with lids. “Corona-related hygiene measures pose no challenge for us,” says Ariane Oswald, “in Sorell, strict Standards have always been considered.”
While Filippa Large, the Breakfast dishes, cleaning up, and then behind the plexiglass of the front Desk phone calls and emails are answered, reservations are confirmed, Check-ins and -outs, handles, works, Nadine Lopez by the Rütli-room. 15 must you clean to this day. “I’m exactly the same as before the Corona,” says the budding hotel business in the second year of the apprenticeship, the working otherwise, in the Sorell Hotel Seidenhof. You ventilated, and disposed of the waste, makes the beds, cleans the bathroom, wipes the dust, soaks the soil and it will then wet. In addition, storage areas, handles and Door be disinfected. “We will devote particular attention to the Elevator buttons,” says Nadine, which also takes care of several times a day to the cleanliness of the public toilet in the house.
Up in front of the Corona-crisis, the Swiss Holiday hotel business was considered a problem child, while the accommodation sector was booming in the cities. But now, a paradigm shift is underway.
As long as this scenario continues, remains uncertain. Tourism is barely in front of the 8. June, awakening. “For the city’s hospitality industry, it is in any case very difficult,” predicts hotel expert Hans R. Amrein. “As long as the borders closed and the airplanes remain on the ground, no foreign guests. New concepts are now in demand.”
Already thirty guests in the Hotel”In the first Lockdown of the week lived two or four guests with us, now thirty,” Alexandre Spatz, Director of the Wellness hotel Golf panorama in Lipperswil.Photo: Holger Jacob
prior To the Corona-crisis, the Swiss Holiday hotel business was considered a problem child, while the accommodation sector was booming in the cities. But now, a paradigm shift is underway. “I see good opportunities for us,” says Alexandre Spatz, Director of the Wellness hotel Golf panorama in Lipperswil. As the Rütli in Zurich, the Resort is located in the Canton of Thurgau guests. You back to work in the Hotel, enjoy the nature and relax – from Monday, also in the re-opened Wellness zone.
“In the first Lockdown of the week lived two or four guests with us, now thirty,” says Sparrow. He has sent his nearly 60-person Crew, in principle, short-time work, seven staff are available daily in the Hotel with 54 rooms and suites, in use. “We are all-rounder,” says the 40-Year-old, together with his wife Caroline at the Front. Sparrow, a trained chef, prepares the meals for the guests, in the Morning, force-supported by a service, at noon and in the evening by a chef. The Director sees the Positive: “The guests are very grateful and understanding, and I have never worked so closely with my people.” It is worthwhile economically to keep the Resort open, so Sparrow more. And: “We can now rehearse the new processes and the re-opening of Restaurants for the foreign guests.”
Hygiene and protection of the gastronomy of change
measures To the ever-popular Buffets, the front hand is not to think. “We will maintain our Sunday brunch, but from Buffet to A-la-carte Service switch”, announces Alexandre Sparrow, “and instead of the fish buffet on Friday night, we write a four-course fish menu.” Suddenly, the Director is in a hurry. The kitchen is waiting. For lunch, guests have the choice between a salad with Tête de Moine, Entrecôte with roasted potatoes or vegetables and truffle Fagottini. And although the word literally means “à la mode du chef”.
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