Firms from fruit-growers to lorry operators and hotels are finding it impossible to recruit enough staff
Laura Salt, operations manager at Steve Fellows Road Haulage Services in Branston, Staffordshire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
Laura Salt, operations manager at Steve Fellows Road Haulage Services in Branston, Staffordshire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
Thu 8 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT
Employers across the UK are struggling to hire enough staff as Covid restrictions ease amid nationwide worker shortages. However, some sectors are finding it tougher than others.
Figures from the jobs websites Adzuna and Indeed show warehousing and transport, care, hospitality, manufacturing, and food preparation and service are among the sectors facing the biggest hiring challenges. Three employers discuss the issues they are facing.
Chefs spy light at end of Covid tunnel after Sunak budget
Chefs and restaurateurs across London have welcomed Rishi Sunak’s “life saving” budget plans announced today.
A raft of measures aimed at keeping the embattled hospitality industry afloat until it can fully reopen in June includes an extension of the furlough scheme, grants of up to £18,000 for pubs and restaurants, and an extension of the VAT cut.
Jack Stein, chef director of Rick Stein Restaurants says he is impressed with the ‘super deduction’ for investment. “This will definitely stimulate our sector as hospitality looks to reopen. From investment in outdoor spaces to kitchen equipment this is a really positive step.”
London s year as a ghost city – and how our tourist hotspot could emerge from the pandemic
We re heading back to the bad old days of the nineties, suggests one hospitality leader
Piccadilly Circus, usually littered with tourists, stands empty at the start of the latest lockdown
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Cast your mind back to last March 23, 2020. It was our first day we were told to “stay at home”. The city emptied of office workers. Tourists retreated. Some businesses were forced close. The exodus from London’s streets was stark. Images of an empty Piccadilly Square and deserted Regent Street filled newspaper pages.
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December 31, 2020
Looking back at how we entered into 2020 the headlines were dominated by plant-based, vegan and vegetarian themes. Consumer reports on eating trends and forecasts were impossible to overlook and seemed to fully justify predicting the plant-based, vegan and vegetarian revolution dominating 2020.
As we entered March Covid-19 was still somewhat in the background thousands of miles away in China but now moving closer as outbreaks around Europe emerged. Most reporting at the time was unaffected and new openings, events and new contracts were still being awarded and announced.
The all too ominous advance of the pandemic was starting to concern many people and on 9 March we published our first prediction of changes to hospitality – Covid-19 the unwanted solution to hospitality’s people and skills shortages. In the same article we referenced UK Hospitality Chief Executive, Kate Nicholls, calling on Government for wide-ranging business s
Chefs share their top tips for cooking Christmas dinner, from turkey to the trimmings
From brined turkey to perfect roast potatoes, the professionals share their festive tips and tricks
Take advice from the pros for Christmas at home
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Every year, one dreams of a stress-free Christmas dinner. Yet such a scenario (glass of wine in hand, singing along merrily to carols while a perky turkey bronzes in the oven), often couldn t be further from the truth.
Luckily, the professionals know how to turn out perfect brined and burnished birds, and roast potatoes that are crisp outside and fluffy within. Those chefs whose restaurants can stay open this Christmas are gearing up for the festive season, but even those who remain closed have shared their tips below.