The Hospitality Guild has recently launched five Asian and Oriental Centres of Excellence in England to address the skills shortages faced by employers in the sector following the immigration cap that restricts their ability to recruit skilled chefs from outside the EU.
The Centres of Excellence are a UK government-funded initiative to train unemployed people to become chefs specialising in Asian and Oriental cooking. The approach of addressing skills shortages through a six week pre-employment training programme, followed by an apprenticeship, is a pilot scheme, but there are a handful of places left to fill from the original 50 apprenticeships that were funded.
Other findings from the YouGov survey reveal that 36% of respondents who would consider working in an Asian and Oriental restaurant, think that it would be fun to work in this industry.
Source: Hospitality Guild
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