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“The programme about the crisis in the restaurant industry did not address low pay & poor conditions of employment. Contributors talked about staff shortages, moaned about having to pay minimum wage, admitted paying the minimum wage to 35 year old, skilled staff (I know this personally to be true). If restaurants want to recruit & retain skilled staff it is not about relaxing immigration rules, instituting accelerated training programs, it is simply a matter of improving pay & conditions. My highly skilled, highly gifted head-chef, managing an annual budget in excess of £50 million, left the industry to train as a plumber. Increase pay & conditions & automatically status increases, retention & recruitment rates do likewise. It is not about a few celebrities. If a business can’t be run that fairly pays staff & provides reasonable conditions at work, it should not be in business. This was a very one sided programme that did not deal with the essential part of the problem which is the people who make up the industry, not the owners, not the stock market rating, not new booking systems, it’s all about the ‘human capital’, the skilled people who make up the industry, all of them essential. This was a very poor Food Programme, undermining my faith in a series I have enjoyed. The producers & researchers need to up their game.”
wheeliestrong via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
07/16/18
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