Celebrity chef George Calombaris has blamed the workplace relations regime for the high cost of eating out in Australia.
Calombaris claims that staff at his restaurants are paid far too much to work on Sunday’s and public holidays and debated that penalty rates are making it almost impossible for restaurateurs to survive.
”And it’s not like they’ve had to go to uni for 15 years,” he told The Power Index website.
”The problem is that wages on public holidays and weekend greatly exceed the opportunity for profit. ‘It’s really difficult to stay open and we only do it because of tourism but the reality is it’s uneconomical. The chef who has made his complaints against the wages known, said the government needs to readdress it’s labour laws.
