A thank you to Brexiteers.

[bemused]

I don't know. John Bercow supports Labour made the news today

Just what Labour needs another sexist bully.

 

[Raheem]

Just what Labour needs another sexist bully.

Tories have 364 and they're 11 points ahead.

 

[steveo87]

Michelin-star restaurant stops serving lunch due to lack of staff

The founder of a Michelin-star restaurant says he had to reduce opening hours to manage shortages.

www.bbc.co.uk

All those foreigners have left the hospitality industry due to Covid 19.
Not Brexit.

I repeat, Covid 19 NOT Brexit.

 

[Badgers]

Food waste and food shortages likely to be increasing more by the look of things. Not to any kind of empty shelves and queues level but choice and freshness of a lot of products will decline.

Nothing to worry about, just things a bit more precarious and disappointing to see.

Onwards and upwards eh...

 

[brogdale]

Michelin-star restaurant stops serving lunch due to lack of staff

The founder of a Michelin-star restaurant says he had to reduce opening hours to manage shortages.

www.bbc.co.uk

All those foreigners have left the hospitality industry due to Covid 19.
Not Brexit.

I repeat, Covid 19 NOT Brexit.

If the wages offered by a business are too low to attract workers, they don't have a business.

 

[Supine]

Restaurants here are really struggling because so many European staff have gone home. Not covid related.

Was speaking to a pub manager recently who is absolutely gutted. He can’t get enough staff to run the bar and serve people outside. And obviously most people want to be outside at the moment.

 

[Badgers]

Our regular reminder

"There is a risk that leaving the EU will be globally interpreted as a narrow, xenophobic, backward-looking thing to do.”



Boris Johnson

12th May 2013

 

[Flavour]

Restaurants here are really struggling because so many European staff have gone home. Not covid related.

Was speaking to a pub manager recently who is absolutely gutted. He can’t get enough staff to run the bar and serve people outside. And obviously most people want to be outside at the moment.

Restaurants across Europe also struggling to hire staff.

 

[Supine]

Restaurants across Europe also struggling to hire staff.

Maybe but almost all were European here. Rightly or wrongly the trade is current struggling due to Brexit and the fact that young people don’t live around here means they are not easily replaced.

 

[Pickman's model]

Restaurants across Europe also struggling to hire staff.

Do you have a link?

 

[Raheem]

Restaurants here are really struggling because so many European staff have gone home. Not covid related.

Was speaking to a pub manager recently who is absolutely gutted. He can’t get enough staff to run the bar and serve people outside. And obviously most people want to be outside at the moment.

Outside service does make it sound at least a bit covid-related.

 

[Flavour]

I think the fact that these issues finding hospitality staff are being seen both in Europe and the US (where it's blamed on stimulus checks) means it's not actually just a Brexit issue, though it definitely contributes.

 

[brogdale]

I think the fact that these issues finding hospitality staff are being seen both in Europe and the US (where it's blamed on stimulus checks) means it's not actually just a Brexit issue, though it definitely contributes.

If, as you say, Brexit "definitely contributes" to labour supply issues for capital, that surely makes it "a Brexit issue", no?

 

[Flavour]

But not purely a brexit, nor even necessarily a Covid issue. Easy to blame brexit for complex phenomena but useful to point out they are not unique to the UK

 

[grit]

Do you have a link?

This has been a serious issue in Ireland as well. In the US, April (the latest data) had the highest number of resignations across the labor force for the past 20 years. However this is obviously not specific to hospitality.

 

[brogdale]

But not purely a brexit, nor even necessarily a Covid issue. Easy to blame brexit for complex phenomena but useful to point out they are not unique to the UK

A reasonable position, but one somewhat undermined by pro-Brexit claims that labour pool reductions resulting from the UK's withdrawal from the supra-state have led to rising wages.

 

[Flavour]

Are restaurant worker wages rising in the UK? There doesn't seem to be the same battle over them (at least not in the media I read) as in the US, where there's been a fairly successful push across the sector for $15 / hour minimum wage

 

[brogdale]

Are restaurant worker wages rising in the UK? There doesn't seem to be the same battle over them (at least not in the media I read) as in the US, where there's been a fairly successful push across the sector for $15 / hour minimum wage

Maybe some of the pro-Brexit posters here could confirm?

 

[editor]

Are restaurant worker wages rising in the UK? There doesn't seem to be the same battle over them (at least not in the media I read) as in the US, where there's been a fairly successful push across the sector for $15 / hour minimum wage

A couple of pubs near me are being forced to offer more because of the shortage of workers, but most I know are still offering shit wages, often on zero hours.

I imagine Brexit will be playing a part in those shortages seeing as most pubs in London used to be heavily staffed by foreign workers.

But as one hand giveth the other taketh away: I know several pubs who are now employing 16/17 year olds instead.

I see no evidence of a general rise in wages in the hospitality trade.

 

[discokermit]

maybe the restaurant worker have found better jobs where they dont have to bow and scrape for tips serving arseholes and get more money.

 

[Loose meat]

If they're still prepared to work unsocial hours and are able-bodied, there is decent money to be made on the self-employed apps like Deliveroo- very low barriers to entry, as well. Big shift during lockdown to this as a desirable option

 

[MrSki]

Don't know if anyone else has noticed this but I went to Sainsburys on Sunday & wanted some Petit Poir. None No frozen peas at all.
Got some today so am relieved but would have thought most peas in this country (regardless on their foreign sounding name) are grown in the UK.
Might just have been a local rush on peas but worth stocking up.

 

[mojo pixy]

Tons of vacancies doing care work too. Covid jabs guaranteed.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

How do you know if you've been sat next to a remainer on your flight?























The aircraft reaches the gate, the engines turn off, but the whining carries on.

 

[editor]

Oh, I can do the cheap shot jokes too!

How do you know if you've been sat next to a leaver on your flight?

They insist that everything is going fantastically well as the engines burst into flames and the the plane catastrophically plunges to the ground. Oh, and something about blue passports and xenophobia.

 

[Spymaster]

I met a remoaner in the pub the other day. I told him that I have a friend who studies him.

Remoaner: "Oh really? Is he a europhile?"
Me: "No. He's a gynaecologist"

 

[brogdale]

I met a remoaner in the pub the other day. I told him that I have a friend who studies him.

Remoaner: "Oh really? Is he a europhile?"
Me: "No. He's a gynaecologist"

Psephologist or Sociologist, surely?
Why would the academic need to hold any particular view (phile or phobe)?
Ruins the attempt at humour.

 

[NoXion]

Michelin-star restaurant stops serving lunch due to lack of staff

The founder of a Michelin-star restaurant says he had to reduce opening hours to manage shortages.

www.bbc.co.uk

All those foreigners have left the hospitality industry due to Covid 19.
Not Brexit.

I repeat, Covid 19 NOT Brexit.

My heart truly bleeds for those business owners who can no longer exploit transient labour as much as they used to.

Oh wait, no it doesn't.

 

[Lucy Fur]

How do you know if you've been sat next to a remainer on your flight?























The aircraft reaches the gate, the engines turn off, but the whining carries on.

I'm surprised you have the time to pen such sophisticated intellectually challenging satire. I'd of thought you'd be far to busy revelling in your newly sunny uplands, counting your new trade deals, pondering how best to spend all that extra money the NHS has, considering the many great opportunities the next generation are going to have, enjoying the security of finally getting our borders back, the thrill of getting to make our own laws and cracking one of at the thought of our sovereignty.