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The crippling problem restaurant-goers haven’t noticed but chefs are freaking out about (illegals)
The Washington Post ^ | August 12, 2015 | Roberto A. Ferdman

Posted on 08/13/2015 7:47:40 AM PDT by bgill

In 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that 1.4 million out of a total of about 12.7 million workers in the restaurant industry, were legal or illegal immigrants. In 2008, the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that roughly 20 percent of the country's more than 2.5 million chefs and cooks were undocumented immigrants..."Improving economy, declining immigration, and higher rents — those are the three main things creating the shortage of cooks," Cowen said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; mexicriminals
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20% of 2.5 million cooks are illegal. That's just ONE segment of ONE industry. Just how many illegals are in the US? About 5 years ago, the guestimation was 1 in 8. They must have documentation for freebies. Yet, ICE can't seem to find them.

Now, see, Obama is filling the jobs need and boosting the economy with all these illegals he's bringing in. Hope and change.

1 posted on 08/13/2015 7:47:40 AM PDT by bgill
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And just how many of these illegal cooks are not vaccinated and may be carrying some third world disease into the US? And thus spreading it amongst our population.


2 posted on 08/13/2015 7:51:03 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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And yet, in the last few years, quite a few young people i have become acquainted with, tell me that they went to culinary school and have not been able to find any kind of a job in the restaurant industry — not any kind of job whatsoever!


3 posted on 08/13/2015 7:51:11 AM PDT by erkelly
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To: rfreedom4u

And wash their hands


4 posted on 08/13/2015 7:52:51 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Back in the late 70s I worked at the Stage Deli on 7th Ave in NYC. Every night we had a different dishwasher whose name was Jose.

The manager gave him a $20 bill and a sandwich for his work.

5 posted on 08/13/2015 7:55:25 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
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2 of my favorite Japanese Sushi restaurants are now manned by Hispanics. Not one Asian sushi Chef anymore. The food quality is now like me, GONE (from their establishment)!


6 posted on 08/13/2015 7:56:37 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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Or from the looks I get, hate Americans and what they do to the food?

I am sure there are exceptions either way,,,,good and bad.

But First,

They broke our laws.

This is what everyone seems to gloss over....


7 posted on 08/13/2015 7:58:50 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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Now I understand, we need to embrace illegal immigration in order for urban elites to continue to enjoy their favorite eateries. We would not want them to suffer inconvenience.


8 posted on 08/13/2015 7:59:39 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: erkelly

I have a friend who went to Cordon Bleu in Vegas. Had a line on a couple of jobs but they didn’t come through. He wound up moving to the Finger Lakes are of New York and opening a B&B.


9 posted on 08/13/2015 8:02:26 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Dr. Thorne

Most of the cooks at the local Chinese restaurants are Latino.


10 posted on 08/13/2015 8:03:12 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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I’ve noticed.
Most of the cooks in our restaurants are latino, even the Chinese!.....................


11 posted on 08/13/2015 8:03:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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Back in the 80s they regularly raided restaurants in South Florida who were using illegal Haitians as dishwashers.


12 posted on 08/13/2015 8:04:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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we have two restaurants in my area that allegedly have “illegals” in the kitchen. I refuse to go to them. The others are better restaurants anyway.


13 posted on 08/13/2015 8:07:50 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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Yes, would you care for some Hep A with that salad? Restaurants probably use Mexican produce, which then isn’t well washed by immigrant workers who don’t wash their hands. Yum!


14 posted on 08/13/2015 8:08:54 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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This is why high school kids and the poor can’t find work.


15 posted on 08/13/2015 8:10:04 AM PDT by Raymann
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There has been 11 million illegals for 20 years. They never increase or decrease in ranks?


16 posted on 08/13/2015 8:13:25 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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Not just Hep A, there is also tuberculosis, whooping cough, e-coli, and other infections that illegals are bringing back to prominence in this country.


17 posted on 08/13/2015 8:14:24 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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There are well over 40 million illegals in the USA.

The 11 million number came out how many decades ago and we’ve been experiencing millions more every year for decades.

In 2007, the “real” number was projected to be 38 to 40 million even as the government and media repoted only the same ole 11 million; “Indeed, 38 million to 40 million illegal aliens were estimated to reside in the United States in 2007 - see Illegal Aliens: Counting the Uncountable by James H. Walsh, The Social Contract, Summer, 2007.” http://www.cairco.org/issues/how-many-illegal-aliens-reside-united-states-elbel

Does anyone think those kinds of numbers are still relevant today, considering the Democratic Party of America’s deliberate importation of aliens? No, I doubt it. The real number is probably more like 50 million plus today.


18 posted on 08/13/2015 8:19:18 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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my nieces' husband went to the French culinary institute in NYC...worked briefly...like a couple of months...at a Mario Batallia restaurant...

he works for my brother now.....Boers Head....as a distributor......

19 posted on 08/13/2015 8:20:52 AM PDT by cherry
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The article cited as one problem the high cost of living in big cities with world-class restaurants.

This is why the industry needs illegals who are willing to live with 12 other people in a cramped apartment, the only way one could afford to pay rent in NYC on a food prepper's wages.

20 posted on 08/13/2015 8:24:32 AM PDT by Drew68
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