Fine dining with small take away. It must be possible!

[popandfresh]

Hi all,

I recently opened a fine dining restaurant but we are soon to offer Deliveroo and a deli with some take away in the day.

I understand this means we will be unable to sponsor a sous chef from outside the EU...

My question is... really?

I know one one very well established fine dining restaurant group in the UK (who I won't name of course...) who have a significant proportion of their income from take away delis in the day (for all of their sites) and famously have multiple chefs on Tier 2 visas. I understand the way they approach it is to split up their teams... i.e. they have a team that only works on food for the fine dining element of their restaurants.

Does this sound reasonable?

Much appreciate any responses

Thanks

[Djsuccess]

your question is not clear.
if you want to sponsor tier 2 visas, you need to first register to become a sponsor, submit all the required documents and then might be visited by UKVI officers to inspect your restaurant and ask you many questions.
once you have successfully gained the sponsorship licence, then you can begin the process of recruitment.
you will have to carry out Resident Labour Market Test before you can recruit any chef from outside EU. This is the hardest part of the recruitment because there are many chefs in the UK and EU, you will have to have a strong reason for recruiting chefs from outside EU. I guess these might be a bit easier for specialised Chinese, Turkish, Mexican and African restaurants or take aways where they might genuinely need to bring in chefs from outside EU.

You will need to go through the due process and only recruit from outside EU if need be.