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#DROPTHEAPP KEBABS A FAIRER DEAL FOR ON FAMOUS RESTAURANTS THE FOOD INDUSTRY BRITISH AFTER COVID-19 STREETS KEBAB INDUSTRY BACKS BritShish investigates kebabs BRITAIN THROUGHOUT on Manchester's Curry Mile CORONAVIRUS CRISIS WELCOME IN THIS ISSUE Is online delivery Food businesses 05 future put at risk by good for takeaways? Migration proposal he online delivery problem is the commission market is the delivery companies The first doner kebab growing in put in the contract can be 08 shop in the UK importance, up to 25% of the order - Tbut relations between then there’s the admin restaurants, takeaways fee, service charge and Eating doner on board and the delivery then after you put on a London bus companies they work with VAT, it comes out about 10 are becoming increasingly 30-35%. In a takeaway strained. situation that’s a staggering Some delivery services charge amount. We also lost many of The kebab industry high commission fees of up to 30%, our long time customers after we 13 revolution: German while many takeaway owners also have started to work with delivery Doner Kebab feel they are losing money on online companies” collection orders made by regular Today, Just Eat effectively customers through these providers. dominates the entire UK market, One well-established takeaway listing more restaurants on its service UK food poisoning owner from Kent told BritShish: than both its young competitor 17 cases higher than "At first I thought my business had Deliveroo and the recently arrived previous year increased. Then I realized that I had American contender Uber Eats been serving people who had mostly combined. Just Eat delivery to already been my customers for years. 29520 restaurants and takeaways as Chlorinated chicken We are paying the fine for not having Deliveroo has 16383 and Uber Eats and UK market a good website, in a sense, by taking has 7578 partners. 20 the distributor company as a partner This growth is set to continue as to our existing long-time business." the company announced earlier in Despite running a busy shop with June that restaurants with their own Kebabs on the curry orders constantly coming in online, delivery riders can join the Deliveroo mile of Manchester some of the owners claim they’ve platform, which they predict could add 22 been running at a loss due to the fees 5,000 new restaurants to the service. charged by Just Eat and Deliveroo. Online order and delivery giants Some owners have also claimed are now an indispensable part of The Food Industry after takeaways are having to lay off the UK food market and integral to 28 Covid-19 members of staff as they struggle to the way many Britons eat every day. make ends meet. However, these large services would The costs of working through do well to take a more sympathetic, Can the food delivery companies have forced supportive and accommodating 34 Industry recover from some food business owners to approach to many of the SMEs who COVID-19? remove their shops and restaurants use their platforms, if they don’t from the site entirely despite fears everybody stands to lose out. about how this could impact sales. Speaking to BritShish another Best, #DropTheApp and shop owner said: “We are quite a 42 phone your local busy shop in North London, but the Timur Ekingen www.britshish.com ~ BritShish Publishing Editors: Timur Ekingen - [email protected], Edward Rowe, Michael Daventry ~ Design & Production Ekrem Yilmaz, Firat Hayta, Mustafa Arabul Contributors Elif Sule Keles, Ceren Gunel, Leyla Alp, Ozlem Aytekin, Erman Koparan ~ Advertising & Sales Zeynep Fesli, [email protected] Published By BritShish Limited ~ 7a Grovelands Road, N13 4RJ ~ Tel 020 8886 2999 ~ Email [email protected] BRITSHISH 3 SLICES FOR UNBELIEVABLE MELT AMAZING TASTE Brought to you by www.kerrymaid.com @KerrymaidDairy 7288_1711_F - Kerrymaid - Lynas Burger A4.indd 1 23/11/2017 14:14 INFO FEATURE Home Office Secretary Priti Patel’s plans to introduce a post-Brexit Australian- style points system after free movement between the UK and EU officially ends after 31st December 2020. Food industry condemns new immigration regulations he food and drink sector is The Home Office also claims workers essential to the production up in arms over scheduled that the new immigration regime of huge array of basic foodstuffs government reforms to “will give top priority to those with such as cheese, pasta, and sausages. Britain’s immigration the highest skills and the greatest While we are committed to Tsystem. Industry bodies and talents, including scientists, promoting the use of automation business owners have condemned engineers and academics.” and technology in our sector, the Home Offfice Secretary Priti Patel’s In a response to the government’s benefits of such innovations will plans to introduce a post-Brexit plans, the Policy Manager not be felt overnight and some food Australian-style points system of industry representative chain roles remain challenging to after free movement between the organisation the Food and Drink automate. With the employment UK and EU officially ends after 31st Federation (FDF) Mark Harrison rates and high vacancy levels, December 2020. drew attention to key issues caused we believe a route for entry-level In a statement published on 18 by the legislation that could affect workers should be introduced which February, the Home Office said businesses throughout the sector. retains control of immigration the new system “will assign points “The food and drink industry is while also supporting business for specific skills, qualifications, reliant on workers at all skill levels” needs, incentivising upskilling, salaries or professions and visas will he said, “We have concerns about and boosting productivity.” only be awarded to those who gain access to those potential employees Prior to this statement, the FDF’s enough points … and will end the who won't qualify through these CEO Ian Wright denounced Priti reliance on cheap, low-skilled labour 'skilled' routes such as bakery Patel’s plans as “ludicrous” and coming into the country.” assistants, meat processors, and a “terrible, terrible mistake”. BRITSHISH 5 6 BRITSHISH FEATURE the system comes into effect). This is disastrous, as a large proportion of the hospitality industry in the UK is currently staffed and run by highly skilled employees with a non-UK background. The current staffing crisis (not enough applicants and a lot of job vacancies) will worsen. Under the new system, 19 out of 34 of our current staff would not have qualified to work in the UK; if the new system does come into effect, we foresee significant problems in filling our vacancies and running our business.” According to Ms Kiazim if Restaurant owners have also be able to experience the kind of restaurant and other hospitality spoken out over the controversial service they offer, and would ask business owners want to support reforms. The co-owners of popular her to remove the ‘low-skilled’ label hercampaign, “Signing the petition Shoreditch-based fine-dining they would be given in the new visa is a great start, and sharing the Turkish restaurant Oklava, Selin system and make it possible for them petition amongst followers on Kiazim and Laura Christie have and other (future) staff members Instagram and customers and staff started a campaign to amend the to migrate to the UK for hospitality would really help. We are thinking proposed system. work. about the next step, and will keep “We started our campaign about one The industry’s diversity is its everyone up to date on the latest week ago” Ms Kiazim told BritShish lifeblood; under the new visa system, developments.” on 29 February. “I say ‘campaign’, we stand to lose the hospitality The government has said that the but we actually just posted a picture industry as we know it” she said. new system will deliver on the result and short caption on Instagram When asked what she thought the of the 2016 Brexit Referendum in response to the government’s worst consequences for the food and “end free movement, reassert proposed points-based visa and drink sector, including the control of our borders and restore system and we were overwhelmed Kebab Industry, could be if the new public trust.” by the support in the hospitality immigration regime comes into Readers can find the petition on the community. Because of this wave of effectshe also told BritShish that BritShish website on the below link: support, we decided to take it further “for UK restaurants at largethe new https://britshish.com/restaurant- and start a petition to ask Priti Patel visa system will mean there will be no owners-campaign-to-revoke-priti- and her government to revoke 1) the new migrants who will qualify to work patels-categorisation-of-unskilled- categorisation of hospitality work as inthe UK hospitality industry (once hospitality-workers/ ‘low-skilled’ and 2) the points-based system which would see a steep decline in migration of hospitality workers from around the globe to the UK (as they would not qualify for entry under the government’s new system).” The chef and businesswoman also explained that Oklava is trying to change the Home Office’s perception of hospitality workers as ‘low’ or ‘unskilled.’ “We have written a letter to Ms Patel in the Evening Standard, asking her to come have dinner at our restaurant, Oklava. We would love for her to come visit, and see for herself the kind of skills our supposed ‘low-skilled’ staff have up our sleeves. We value our staff, their diversity, and their commitment to their jobs; we would like her to BRITSHISH 7 HODJA NASREDDİN “The UK's first ever doner kebab shop” ith the doner kebab, which has become the symbol of the immigration of Turks in WEurope, especially in Germany, in fact the British are more likely to have met before.