Summer bar Jakk or Bar Visart in Bruges. Two examples of pop-up summer bars that have grown in a few years from a neighborhood initiative to popular and busy summer terraces. And so there are still a lot of pop-up shops in Bruges. Some sometimes take up parts of the public domain or do not have to pay terrace branches, such as catering establishments in the center. Others can borrow material from the city again. And that is precisely what the city now wants to change, certainly because the number of applications for pop-up cases is increasing every year.
Dirk De Fauw, Mayor Bruges: “That is why an uneven playing field has arisen compared to the regular catering establishments. If a catering business wishes to have a terrace, then that can, but of course it has to pay taxes to the city. While a pop-up bar just takes the public domain and does not have to pay for the city. There is a unequal battle.