Source: India Tribune
LONDON, ENGLAND, August 31, 2002: Indian restaurants in Britain are currently gripped by an acute shortage of qualified cooks as catering academies prefer to teach Chinese, Japanese, Spanish or Italian specialties, rather than Indian cuisine, which is the most popular in the country. Restaurants are now recruiting candidates from all ethnic groups, plus appealing for more lenient visa rules. More than two million curries are served a week in over 8,500 food outlets. Indian food recently eclipsed Chinese food as the most popular ethnic cuisine in the UK, and is a US$3.6 billion-a-year industry.