German Restaurant Forced to Close Opens to Homeless
December 23, 2020
The food distribution station of Berlin s biggest restaurant Hofbraeu Berlin is ready for homeless people, in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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A German restaurant forced to close because of the coronavirus crisis is now helping needy people in Berlin.
Hofbraeu Berlin is the capital’s largest restaurant and
beer place. But it remains closed to the public because of restrictions aimed at reducing spread of the coronavirus.
One employee, however, proposed that the restaurant could partly reopen to help the city’s homeless. Hofbraeu Berlin began taking in homeless people last week – providing them with a free meal and a place to warm themselves.
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When Germany shut down restaurants and bars to combat the spread of the coronavirus in early November, restaurants were again sidelined by the pandemic. After all, the festive holiday season is usually one of the most lively times of year for the European nation.
But one Berlin restaurant decided to channel the holiday spirit in a different way. The capital’s biggest restaurant, Hofbraeu Berlin, which is used to 3,000 guests crowding into its Bavarian-style beer halls on a good night, has pivoted into sheltering 150 homeless people, the Associated Press reported.
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People wearing protective face masks walk past a beer pub shuttered during a four-week semi-lockdown during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on November 20, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. | Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty
When Germany shut down restaurants and bars to combat the spread of the coronavirus in early November, restaurants were again sidelined by the pandemic. After all, the festive holiday season is usually one of the most lively times of year for the European nation.
But one Berlin restaurant decided to channel the holiday spirit in a different way. The capital’s biggest restaurant, Hofbraeu Berlin, which is used to 3,000 guests crowding into its Bavarian-style beer halls on a good night, has pivoted into sheltering 150 homeless people, the Associated Press reported.
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BERLIN (AP) The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t made life on the streets of Berlin any easier for Kaspars Breidaks.
For three months, the 43-year-old Latvian has faced homeless shelters operating at reduced capacity so that people can be kept at a safe distance from one another. And with fewer Berliners going outdoors, it’s much harder to raise money by panhandling or collecting bottles to sell for recycling.
But on a chilly winter morning this week Breidaks found himself with a free hot meal and a place to warm up, after the German capital’s biggest restaurant, the Hofbraeu Berlin itself closed down due to coronavirus lockdown restrictions shifted gears to help the homeless.