Moroccan Cafe and Restaurant Owners Demand Government Action Amid Industry Challenges

In an interview with Al 3omk, in the run-up to the big meeting of cafe and restaurant professionals, which will be held next Saturday, El Harrak expressed his dissatisfaction with the government’s lack of interest in their demands.

According to him, the promise of El Othmani last month to hold urgent meetings with the ministries of Benchaâboun and Elalamy in order to find solutions to the specific problems of his peers, has not been kept. This leads him to affirm that to date, the assessment of his meeting with the Head of Government on "the claims file" is "virtually nil". "The government has not lifted a finger to satisfy the professionals despite the expiration of the allotted time and the verbal promises," he lamented.

Faced with this inability, the association now demands a separation of the commercial sector from that of industry within the ministry, explains the president, stressing that the supervisory ministry does not provide any service to trade professionals, and gives priority to industry.

El Harrak is also surprised by the delay taken by the government since 2018 to develop a strategic study on the legal shortcomings that the cafe and restaurant sector is experiencing in the Kingdom.