The Official DOOM: Lunch

[AtW]

“UK restaurant owners blame labour shortages as they cut services

Wages rise sharply as pandemic and Brexit leave venues without enough staff

Restaurant owners across the UK have cut lunch and dinner services and raised wages, citing a “calamitous” shortage of labour prompted by Brexit and the aftereffects of the pandemic. Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux Jnr said on Wednesday that he had been forced to stop serving lunch and reduce the menu from 12 choices per course to a tasting menu and three other options at his Mayfair restaurant Le Gavroche.“

https://www.ft.com/content/87214e2b-...c-ab86e5626b19

[_V_]

I hope the bloody gammon face Brexiteers are happy now they have forced up wages for people in this country!

Millionaires like Michel Roux Jnr are having a really hard time right now.

[ladymuck]

Doom indeed! If Le Gavroche can't manage, what hope is there for anyone else.

[vetran]

As agency staff 30 years ago I earnt £5-7 an hour working in hospitality now they complain about paying £9.

Why shouldn't a chef/waiter/barman earn average wage?

[GigiBronz]

Because money in its own is designed to act as motivator. When the jobs are dull and repetitive and they do not require ,or limited, skill people tend to focus a bit more on the financial reward if not exclusively.

So the low pay is meant to incentivise the workers to work harder, they will be in a continuous struggle to make ends meet.
In the Human Remaining book financial incentive above a certain level is considered sanitation benefit and even sometimes demotivates.

This would explain why NHS staff is paid so low and salary increases are a joke, because in their book it doesn't work like that.

Employers are in an agreement also so nobody raises the rates, hence why now there is no mention about increasing rates. They could have added 2£/h with little effort but that is not the purpose.

If you think you live in a free market you are fooling yourself.

The only reason we have all this nonsense about clapping for NHS and talking about staff shortages is to, in a way, create a different narrative in the mind of the population. We compare ourselves against other and alongside we derive our value from there as well.