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Great News for the Industry – Restrictive Work Permit Regulations for Chefs to be Changed

In positive news for the hospitality industry, Heather Humphreys TD and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation has signed off on changes to Employment Permit Regulations which will make it easier for businesses in the sector to source chefs from outside the European Union. The Restaurants Association of Ireland has welcomed this change warmly. Announcing …

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Bridging the Skills Gap and Building Foodies – Niall McKenna on His Chef Apprenticeship Programme

“I was very very lucky, from a young age I was very much focused on becoming a chef. You ask most kids nowadays what they want to do and you get a dumb look on their face, they haven’t got a clue”, says Niall McKenna, one of Northern Ireland’s most prominent chefs and the restaurateur …

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CLIFF Academy Produces Nine Skilled Graduates with City & Guilds Qualification

CLIFF Academy, Ireland’s first professional cookery school offering City & Guilds qualifications has just produced nine talented graduates, the first group to take the Level 2 Diploma in Culinary Arts and Food Preparation at the new facility. The young chefs began their culinary education in January, with the course taking place over a period of …

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Ireland’s Chef Shortage – The Industry Issue Putting Your Dinner at Risk

The laborious lifestyle of a chef is well chronicled. The long hours in a hot, cramped, pressurised environment that are guaranteed to result in a sore back, multiple burns and sleep deprivation, and less so in a social life. But there’s another key player in the hospitality industry who’s working tirelessly of late but whose services …

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Community Food Initiative Announces Innovative Professional Culinary Course

Kilkenny based ‘School of Food’ is launching an internationally recognised and certified professional cookery course. The Professional Cookery programme comes as a response to the shortage of professionally qualified chefs in Ireland. Recent figures from the Restaurant Association of Ireland reveal an urgent need for 5,000 new professional chefs each year and right now only …

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