"I would like to keep open one more day, Tuesday, and add lunch also during the week. But I struggle to find new profiles, both for the kitchen and for the dining room". Thus Alessandro Borghese, chef and well-known face of TV.
"My generation grew up working at crazy rhythms - explains Borghese interviewed by Corriere della Sera - today the mentality has changed: those who enter this profession want guarantees. Higher salaries, regulated shifts, growth paths. In exchange for the sacrifice of time, young people ask for certainties and gratifications. In fact, before this job was underpaid: today kids don't accept it ".
"With the closures, many people have had the opportunity to stay with their families - he adds -. And they changed jobs to have more time. Before Covid there was a queue of young people outside restaurants, today they no longer want to do this job. ".
And so, in the absence of staff both in the kitchen and in the dining room, Borghese had to adjust the number of days his restaurant was open.
“In the pre-pandemic period I was open seven days a week - he explains -, now five. We can't work as well as we could. Waiting lists are back in bookings but opportunities have to be given up because resources are lacking ".
(Unioneonline / vl)
