School of Curry

[Gazza63]

Just read this article online at the SUN website thought it would be of interest.


School of Curry' restaurant plea

INDIAN restaurants are calling for a School of Curry as immigration rules keep good chefs out, it emerged yesterday.
There are now 27,000 vacancies for curry house cooks in Britain ? more than two per restaurant.

Hundreds have already been forced to close, it was claimed.

Restaurants are campaigning for a London School of Curry to train chefs over three years.

Nur-Ur Rahman Khondaker, of the Bangladesh Caterers? Association, said chefs who move to Britain must now have qualifications, hygiene certificates and good English.

He said: ?You can?t expect that from a chef coming from Bangladesh. It is killing restaurants.?

Mr Khondaker, who represents 12,000 curry houses, called for Government help for a school.

He said restaurants employ 110,000 and contribute ฃ3.8billion to the economy, adding: ?This will open up the industry. I know many white British people who want to do the job.?

I guess one or two members on this site might want to sign up if this school ever opened. 

[CurryOnRegardless]

Mr Khondaker, who represents 12,000 curry houses, called for Government help for a school. 

I heard this joker bleating on about this on the BBC Today programme a couple of months ago. So what has been going on in the BIR trade for the last 40 odd years then? Importing cheap illiterate labour from the subcontinent so they can exploit the poor sods, paying pitiful wages for Dickensian conditions and ripping them off for slum accommodation, that's what. Now the Govt have, finally, tightened the rules this guy wants taxpayers' money for training, bloody cheek!!
Why doesn't his organisation get together with local councils and start training courses in FE colleges? Oh silly me, that would cost these guys money wouldn't it and they would have to have people going into restaurants checking on standards, if that were to happen there would doubtless be a whole lot more BIRs closing than is happening due to labour shortages.
::)CoR