UK restaurants hit with chef shortage as indoor dining resumes

Reset button: A restaurant in Covent Garden, London. Chefs, waiters and bartenders are in short supply after Brexit and three lockdowns. — Bloomberg

LONDON: Britain’s restaurants and bars can serve indoors again for the first time in five months today. Many of them are struggling to find enough staff after Brexit and three lockdowns in a year drove workers out of the industry.

Chefs, waiters and bartenders needed for everything from fast-food restaurants to fine dining are in short supply, with industry executives and recruiters saying that many of their most experienced people have left for other jobs.