Pedro Sola attacked restaurants in Polanco who invade the sidewalks with their “umbrellas”

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, some restaurants in Mexico City They have started putting tables, umbrellas or structures on the outskirts of their restaurants in order to have better ventilation and prevent the transmission of the virus. However, although little by little the preventive measures have diminished, many establishments have decided to leave their tables on the public road and integrate it into their establishments.

It is in this context that stone alone, one of Mexican television’s most controversial conductors, broke out on social media and complained that restaurant owners in an exclusive area of ​​the country’s capital They will continue to invade the sidewalks.

Via your account Twitter the presenter of windowing and great friend of Pati Chapoy, he was upset by this situation by showing his fed up.

“Traffic in the city is already very difficult, It deteriorated due to the permission the government gave restaurants to take over the bottling. I thought it was because of the pandemic but no,” he began to say.

Pedrito pointed out that it didn’t seem right to him that food establishments continue to choose to expand onto public roads, which keeps passers-by away.

“They keep laying tables and frames with roofs and umbrellas, Here in Polanco, walk down any street. An abuse of the authorities, surely charging those spaces that, of course, do not have them, ”placed the famous.

The reactions of Internet users were not long in coming and several of them had mixed opinions as to the position expressed by the artist of Aztec TV

“Your uncle the cochista who doesn’t understand that the only causes of traffic are cars.” “Uncle Pedrito Sola, like me, hates terraces”, are some of the mentions that appear in Twitter.

Part of the measures put in place by the CDMX government during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic involved certain restrictions both in restaurant hours and capacity. Likewise, based on the epidemiological traffic light, each week, the modifications that may exist in this regard have been determined.

Among the provisions with which companies had to comply was the use of sanitary filtersgel dispensers, information material, use of face masks and maintaining a 1.5 meter distance between tableswhich should be zigzag.

Thus, in 2021, several members of the member restaurant mentioned the possibility of use lanes adjacent to restaurants for the placement of tables outside the premises and thus be able to expand the number of people who can receive.

This measure has been effectively implemented, however, in 2023, when restaurant capacity has already returned to normal and distance measurements between tables are no longer an issue, it is common to observe in areas such as Polanco, La Roma or La Comtesse, that some food establishments apparently permanently left the extension of clothing outside their premises.

However, on February 28 The new regulations have been published in the Gaceta de la Ciudad de México, prepared in collaboration with the Federal consumer prosecutor (Profeco) and the National Chamber of Catering (Canirac).

However, Although the regulations provide for the display of the menu with prices, visibility of payment methods, and not surcharges on additional ingredients or clarification of additional costs, there is still no section regarding the extension of certain establishments to public roads.