Don’t hire foreigners to prepare food, eateries told

Errant practices: Cabbages left exposed outside a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. Eateries disregarding hygiene standards have been pinpointed as the source of the recent typhoid outbreak.

KUALA LUMPUR: Eateries in the city should not hire foreigners to prepare food, said Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

He said he had requested the ministry's licensing division to meet with food operators and conduct random spotchecks on cleanliness and the hiring of foreigners in the kitchen.