According to restaurateurs, buffets distort competition and make the action unprofitable. In their opinion, there are even too many buffets, revealing in the Helsinki News story.
Entrepreneurs think that too many buffet restaurants have been included in the Eatis restaurant world of the Itis shopping center. KL/Karoliina Vuorenmäki
There has been an annoyance among the entrepreneurs of the restaurant world in Itäkeskus, a shopping mall in Helsinki, has been annoyed by the number of buffet restaurants, says Helsinki News.
The number of buffet restaurants has tripled in five years.
Annoyed restaurant entrepreneurs feel that the whole has not been thought of when concluding restaurant leases. The affordable price level of the buffet has also forced other restaurants to follow their pricing, even if it is not profitable. Raising prices is also perceived as impossible, even if the prices of the raw materials are needed.
– People do not want to pay one or two euros more than in another place. They go to where the cheapest, Delhi Rasoi restaurant franchisee Hashmat Rahman says to HU.
Some of Itis’s restaurateurs have become a large number of Beffet restaurants in the mall’s restaurant world. Illustration. Elle Nurmi
Itis Shopping Center Director Hannis Raitanen confirms to Helsinki News that there are currently six buffet restaurants in the restaurant world. Five of them work side by side. There are about a dozen restaurants in total.