“For the past month, the phone has started ringing again.” David Fabien, DJ based in Behren-lès-Forbach is smiling again after two years of the Covid-19 epidemic which emptied his diary of weddings, birthdays and parties of all kinds. The lifting of restrictions allows him to see 2022 with much more serenity. Better, it is already beginning to fill 2023! “For this year 2022, I was not very worried because all the bride and groom had postponed to this year. But where I see the big relief is for 2023. All reservations are made for this next year: May and June are complete, I only have two dates left in July, one in August, one in September… The calendar is very well wrapped up.”
Get back to life
The recovery is also being felt among caterers which must meet a strong demand from customers. “There is a desire to resume life as before” observes Mégane Dieudonné, communication and marketing manager for Marcotullio, a caterer based in Louvigny, “we can’t live permanently in videoconferencing and with remote events. People want to move on.” The company claims not to have laid off during this delicate period, but it lost staff who preferred to change paths. So the needs are important today: “in the kitchen, in service, in CDI, CDD or extra.”
Everyone hopes that this return to normal life will be lasting.. The rebound of the epidemic is observed with anxiety. “We have seen that it is a virus that is a little more virulent when it is cold. We will still remain in this uncertainty, for example for the Christmas festivities” confides David Fabien who nevertheless wants to be optimistic, “we have learned to live with this Covid and we must revive the economy.”