Nando's was forced to close 45 restaurants in the UK due to supply chain disruptions.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousNando's was forced to close dozens of restaurants in the UK due to a shortage of the distinctive peri peri chicken due to a lack of workers
There are no workers and therefore there is no possibility of finding chicken. And so, in the UK, Nando's - the famous South African fast food chain specializing in the distinctive grilled 'peri peri' chicken - has at least temporarily closed many restaurants.
Around 45 outlets have in fact lowered their shutters in England, Scotland and Wales. Nando's thus becomes the latest in a series of British companies to see their supply chain strained by a shortage of workers. The spokesperson said the main bottleneck has been in UK chicken distributors, who have been warning in recent weeks that Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic have created a "perfect storm" that is effectively limiting production.
The UK food industry has experienced disruptions in its supply chain in recent weeks due to staff shortages and some of our restaurants have been affected, Nando's said in a statement.
Many UK producers and restaurants struggled to recruit workers during the pandemic, straining supply chains already exasperated by Britain's exit from the European Union (Sky News last month reported that the UK was a short, for example, of about 100 thousand truck drivers).
In recent months, the shortage of workers has been exacerbated by UK regulations requiring people to isolate themselves if they come into contact with someone who has been infected with the coronavirus, resulting in what has been termed pingdemia: contagion tracking in UK would seem falsified due to a system error, for which the app responsible for sending self-isolation warnings for those who have had contact with a positive, would send notifications (English, ping) even erroneously. The increasing number of erroneous pings has made it possible to coin the pingdemia.
It will also be a pandemic and it will also be Brexit. And if on the one hand the closure of a fast food restaurant can give hope for a return to the local, to a non-globalized cuisine and the farewell of intensive farming to produce more and more, on the other the discourse necessarily becomes much broader and articulated if you think of the hundreds of employees who deserve the right rights and who at this moment have only seen 45 workstations closed.
Source: CNN
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