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Staff shortages: small restaurants forced to offer £1,000 sign-on bonuses

Jobs site says ‘new phenomenon for the hospitality industry’ shows no sign of abating as Christmas looms

Independent restaurants are being forced to offer hefty sign-on bonuses of £1,000 or more for chefs and other kitchen staff as the shortages of skilled workers tightens in the busy festive season.

Small businesses such as Angie’s and D Grande, both restaurants in Chiswick, west London, the Coniston Hotel in Skipton, and Galeta, a bakery in Hackney, east London, are offering sign-on fees of between £500 and £1,000. Larger rivals are offering even more: recruits at Harry’s Bar, the Mayfair private members club owned by the hospitality entrepreneur Richard Caring, will get £2,000, while the Côte bistro chain is also dangling £2,000.

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