Análisis del impacto de la pandemia COVID-19 en los establecimientos de alimentos y bebidas de la ciudad de Nueva Loja, provincia de Sucumbíos.

Abstract

In the present work, a study was carried out to know the impact of the covid- 19 pandemic in food and beverage establishments in the city of Nueva Loja, Province of Sucumbíos, due to the concern that there was no evidence of this study, which It is essential to know these aspects since they give the population an idea of the crisis that other sectors of the population had to go through, so the general objective was to determine the impacts caused by Covid-19, identifying the position of the managers of the third and fourth category food and beverage establishments, to verify them, a mixed approach was achieved with the use of a survey in the quantitative part to seven managers of the establishments, and an interview in the qualitative part for 3 managers , discovering that the establishments have a deficit in their accounts and income after the pandemic took place in the city, also with the fact that 57% of the Businesses disagree with the measures carried out by the government that were implemented for them in times of pandemic until today, reaching the conclusion that several restaurants will not be able to recover from the crisis since all of them have reduced their capacity by at least half and productivity of each one of them low and what resulted in a negative social and economic impact for this industry in the territory.