With immigration policies hitting new chefs, and social mobility among second-generation Indians and Bangladeshis, Britain’s curryhouses are in trouble
It’s Monday lunchtime on Brick Lane, east London, and Mohammad Salim’s curry house is empty, save for a single waiter and pair of diners in the corner.
“Everyone is suffering for staff,” he says, pointing to the restaurants on either side of his. “Everyone.”
Before 2012, we were able to bring new chefs from India, but now ... restaurants ... cannot continue without new hires
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