Home chefs find going tough amid pandemic
May 24, 2021
With orders drying up, they find it hard to sustain their business
It s not just restaurants that have seen a decline in business during the ongoing pandemic, even home chefs are finding it tough to stay afloat.
Take the example of Supriya Phulwani, a 35-year-old home chef based in Mumbai, who has seen a sharp decline in party orders and orders from regular corporate clients. “Last year when the lockdown eased up I was getting several local orders that compensated for the lack of big corporate orders. Now my revenues have declined by at least 30 per cent,” Phulwani said adding that she had to let go of at least five of her staff members.
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COVID-19 fuels the threat of global famine The pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity around the world. The World Food Program is short of resources to alleviate hunger.
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Jenny Manrique
Ethnic Media Services
Conflicts, climate change and now COVID-19 are the three C’s driving 270 million people to famine in the most impoverished countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Central and Latin America. Officials at the World Food Program (WFP), the hunger relief arm of the United Nations that feeds about a hundred million people each year in some 88 countries, warned that they are running out of resources to meet the demand for staple foods and thus prevent people dying from starvation.