(Jamma) “I wanted to read the new miscellaneous legislation well before venturing into the specific examination of the new awp3. I am amazed by the associative passivity of our sector: note and symptom, perhaps, of the entrepreneurial paucity of the supply chain” declares Francesco Gatti, representative of Bakoo Spa, a leading company in the production of gaming machines in Italy.
“It is not possible to learn, between the lines, the intention of grouping gaming machines in “safe” places without clearly distancing oneself from a merely protective regulatory intent for the consumer but clearly irrational and harmful to the sector.
The problem is the video lotteries. It must be said clearly, without hesitation, without coming to terms with those who imposed this absurd system to the detriment of the AWPs and who now, in defiance of reality, are also managing to get across a distorted and unjustifiably amplified media message by the general media which, in the face of very serious problems of the country focus on slot machines identified as a panacea for all ills.
The same media hide the new tax on electronic cigarettes, symbol of the end of the false war of the state against the evil (this is indeed deadly) caused by smoking in the face of certain and constant revenues for one's coffers, with the welcome to the various numbers and small numbers concerning the "social expenditure of tobacco" which is now rarely mentioned.
I can't think that a machine change without any compensation is really assumed, but only by virtue of greater "security" when the GDF checks found 1.5% of the machines to be irregular.
I challenge any other sector to undergo continuous checks and to generate 1.5% of crimes: and are we still talking about (and believing) the fairy tale of security?
The system, if no serious action is taken, will collapse under the very weight of the illogical regulatory claims.
Preventing the manager from working in a lean and appropriate way for his business is equivalent to taking him out of the game and generating an enormous amount of potential "alternative" game.
How many bars can survive without AWP income? it must be said. If we remove the AWPs, the bartenders will install other machines. Who among us if they took away the bread would not have the need to find the same bread in another way?
To our administrators, if tomorrow someone left them at home without a salary praising the logic of concentration of functions, would that be fine? I highly doubt.
I read about that bartender from Rome who wanted to remove the machines saying he would give up 30.000 euros a month: these are nonsense that the media should denounce rather than exalt.
I don't think the 30.000 euros declared by that bartender can remain on such a small number of machines as those installed in a bar, not even in one year. Yet the news caused a sensation. Result: the next day we received multiple calls from bartenders complaining of low earnings and who would like a direct offer from a production company to install the machines on their own. This is not helping the industry.
The influence we pride ourselves on having in Confindustria is so marginal that we can't even bring correct information to public opinion. It must be said that the REAL problem is and remains the VLTs.
There are too many cinemas: machines given with an ad hoc quota to guarantee their accessibility in large numbers and which are now generating unthinkable social problems.
These problems are then downloaded to the awp slots, easily confused with the absurd vlts.
Why is this not said very clearly? How many rooms are in use? How many are at risk of closure?
Who needs to sell the bale of the dangerous awp to revive a business that has had disappointing results?
Let's affect these choices now, or in the course of 3-4 years the Italian automatic sector will be completely revolutionized to the detriment of the many, small managers.
Behind these companies there are families, workers, small entrepreneurs who must be protected and who must be guaranteed a future before asking them to invest more money for the absurd need for "greater security" brought forward by some interested player in the supply chain.
We cannot ask our clients to invest blindly.
It is time to understand that the future must be ensured for those who are asked to spend 1.2 billion euros.
Producing cars is my profession, but I prefer to do it thinking that my customers have a future and not to sell a one-way ticket to the bankruptcy of a sector".
