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In the hotel and catering sector, salaries will be increased by 16%, with the lowest salary to be 5% above the minimum wage. The measure was signed on January 17. A way of trying to save a sector that is attracting less and less.
A hotel and catering training school, which the France 2 team visited, is not full. At 20, Gaspard wants to become a cook, but for him, the profession is not valued enough financially. He works 39 hours a week and overtime is not paid. Despite the difficult conditions, this did not stop Ariadna, a young Brazilian. After a degree in gastronomy in her country, she came to complete her training in France. She too admits that salaries and recognition need to be improved.
Tensions in the kitchen, extended hours… All these negative points make it difficult for the school to recruit new waiters. “Since the Covid in addition, it’s complicated to attract young people to our professions”, confides Ismaël Menault, general manager of the Paris school of table trades. In addition, managers of Parisian restaurants are trying to attract candidates by increasing salaries or negotiating weekend rest days.