Updated January 24, 2021 by pierre

How to support the HORECA, café & restaurants in Brussels during this Covid-19 period?

You are among those who are impatiently counting on the moment when you can resume a good beer with your best friends? Do you miss the bar of your favorite pub? It may still be several weeks before a customer can return to the door of an establishment. HORECA. The Restaurant owners and cafes do not lead the high life. The moments of confinement represent for some a very difficult period. Many find themselves without income. Grading their business afloat is very difficult. Some have already had to put the key under the doormat. Your favorite restaurant and café may not be there in a few weeks.

Others, once the crown past, at the reopening, will be seen stunned by a blow. Compliance costs of the HORECA establishment. Once the containment linked to the Coronavirus is lifted, they will eventually have to invest in order to make their establishment compliant with the new safety standards that could emerge... The number of establishments that risk going out of business could therefore be large, very large.

This is why, today in a outpouring of solidarity, many platforms to support your cafes and restaurants today have emerged. Become supportive with HOREA, by supporting your favorite café and restaurant in Brussels. You can discover the most popular initiatives below. It only takes a moment and a few dollars, but will make the difference for them.

Si Are you interested in solidarity initiatives related to the coronavirus?, do not hesitate to consult our articles on the subject Covid solidarity in Brussels.

 “CaféSolidarité: Support Brussels cafés, buy a beer now for later.

Many entrepreneurs in the cafe and restaurant sector have had to put the key under the doormat. Thanks to an initiative of the company Maes, today it is possible to support your favorite bars and cafes. The principle is quite simple. Just go to the website Solidarity Cafe.

this is an action called " pay it forward“. That is to say that you pay today a beer that you can eat later, when the cafe reopens. Thanks to this cash advance, the owner of the bar will now have additional financial resources to bring his establishment up to safety standards. This will allow him to restart quickly as soon as the containment for the HORECA sector is lifted in Brussels. The icing on the cake, Maes reimburses the first 400 beers to all the cafes that register for the action. Through this action they estimate more or less that 4.000 cafes participate in this action.

#HORECACOMEBACK, the platform to support the entire HORECA sector

This is an idea that comes directly from the sector affected by the HORECA crisis: Belgian brewers as well as soft drink producers (such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, Pepsico, etc.). Thanks to the platform HORECA COME BACK, you can also support the HORECA sector during this period of crisis linked to the coronavirus. Just log on to https://horecacomeback.be/, select the establishment you want to support, and finally buy a voucher for the restaurant. You have the choice between vouchers ranging from 10 to 200 euros. You can use them once the restaurant or cafe has re-opened. The costs related to the platform are borne directly by the companies that created it.

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#CAFE COURAGE: Support your bar and order beers for later.

It may still take weeks for a customer to walk through the door of a café in Brussels. ABInBev has therefore set up a platform to help. The aim is also to support Belgian cafés during the confinement period. The principle is just as simple as the other HORECA support platforms. Log on to the website of CafeSolidarite.be . There you can pre-order all the beers and rounds you will consume later. It is also possible to make a simple donation to your favorite café to support it and bring your pierre to the building.

The platform has already met with some success. 2.780 establishments are already registered. 3.6 million beers were distributed in Belgium, and 500.000 in Luxembourg. This represents 452.056 euros.