Last week the Restaurant Association launched a campaign to draw attention to the major skills and labour shortage the hospitality sector is experiencing as a result of Covid-19 and the subsequent border closure. This episode’s guest Chand Sahrawat runs three of Auckland’s most highly-rated restaurants – Sidart, Cassia and The French Cafe by Sid – and has first-hand experience of the kind of pressures hospitality owners and their staff are under. 

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Read Chand’s open letter to Jacinda Ardern here:

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