For decades, countless young Italians have travelled to the UK each year to learn English and serve in restaurants dedicated to their homeland.
Are you an Italian worker in the UK? Email [email protected] restaurants are struggling to recruit 'authentic' waiters and kitchen staff due to new Brexit rules, with bosses claiming their British replacements aren't up to scratch.
Nicola Mewitt, 35, who has been a manager at Padella in Borough High Street for a year said the number of people applying from jobs in Europe has 'fallen massively' 'It has been hard to find team members. I haven't been able to hire any Italian people since I have worked here. Now all of our waiters are younger British people. It doesn't feel fair to say but they aren't as good as the Italian and Spanish staff were.
'I used to love working with lots of different people from across the world and different backgrounds. But even before the new minimum salary hike, many companies were put off hiring Italian waiters and lower-paid workers , due to the high administrative costs of obtaining a work visa for them. Fabio from Baccala in Borough Market however said he does not think Italian restaurants need Italian employees to run.
'It is just me and my parents and they are getting older. My mum is having health issues. If we go on holiday we have to close the restaurant because there is just no one to run it.' Emilio Balone, 26, who is an Italian chef from the restaurant Pulia near London Bridge station agreed with this sentiment that Italian workers simply know more about Italian food.
For decades, countless young Italians have travelled to London to chase their dreams, learn English and serve diners in restaurants dedicated to their homeland 'Little Italy': Italian migration to London The first Italians to arrive were merchants and businessmen from Northern Italy during the fourteenth century.Over the next centuries, a steady stream of Italians arrived from different walks of life.This rise of fascism in Italy caused British Italian fascist groups to emerge across Britain and London.
He said: 'After Covid we lost lots of people from other countries and they weren't able to come back because of Brexit.'We don't really think that it matters if our staff are from Italy or not as long as they are professional and they work hard.'
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