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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
In Tooting (SOuth London), most if not all of the Indian/Pakistani restaurants have asian waiters. There are som ethat have white workers who happen to be Eastern European. I have a friend who owns a restuarant in Tooting and he tells me that when he has a vacancy for a waiter, his first choice of staff would be a family member or a friend of family etc etc. The reason for this is that he is looking to sort out either his own family member (extended family) with a job or someone else he might know. The chef is almost always exclusively a pakistani/indian often a family memberr because like it or not if you want to go and eat an authentic indian you'd rather eat one cooked by an Indian(well I know I would). I go to eat outr in Portuguese restaurants frquently, and the chefs are all Portuguese. Thats my preference as Im sure it would be with the magority of diners looking for an authentically cooked meal.
As for people coming in looking for work, he tells me that he hardly ever gets an enquiry from an English white person to work in the restaurant, and if anyone does come to ask, they dont want to work for the relatively low wages and long hours that he is paying.
He has told me on more than one occassion that he would love to employ english girls as waitresses in his restaurant, as they would be more flirtatious with the staff then his asian male waiters.
There is also a muslim run cafe/italian restaurant in Tooting which has white female staff. They are all eastern European, and he pays a minimum wage and the tips are good.
In central London most of the restaurant waitresses are white Eastern European girls.
The pattern to me is that white English people do not want to work in the restaurant/takeaway industry because it does not meet there payment expectations. I have previously posted on this forum about my difficulty in getting an English person to work in a sales role because the hourly rate was minimum wage + commission. 90% of the people responding to my advert were asian/foreign (non English).
So in my opinion only Asians in the restaurant industry is not solely based on the jobs only being made available to asians, but a lot is also to do with UK white people not applying or wanting to work in such industries.
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I live in a village with a population of just a few thousand. We have a local indian restaurant and takeaway and the owner has been trating in our village for 30 years. A mate of mine (welsh and white) managed the restaurant for him. He was a chef but left all the cooking to the Indian chefs. they were superb at what they did. They cook traditional Indian dishes in the way that they are taught from the region they or their famiy originate from. That is what makes certain curries taste better/worse in different restaurants.
I also worked in the restaurant for a bit when I was a bit short on cash, and they all welcomed me with open arms.