The La Mama chain, which currently operates six restaurants in Bucharest, confirms that it is giving up Asian workers and intends to hire only Romanians. The company currently has 200 employees, of which about 10 percent are foreign workers.
“In our restaurants, we decided a few months ago to only take people from the Romanian market. If we don’t give chances to the workforce in Romania, they will leave and we will complain that they are leaving. For the new locations we are about to open, we will need approximately 100 employees. For this, we collaborate with Vocational Schools and we also hire people with disabilities, because we have to give back to the community the good we receive,” says Cătălin Mahu, the owner of the restaurant chain.
“I don’t want to hire Asians anymore. First of all, because the civilizational difference is enormous between us and them. I think I’m past the point where I have to teach someone how to wash their hands. These people must first be taught to wash their hands. For them, living with a cockroach is part of their normal life! I put these people up in expensive places just to make sure there are no bed bugs, no cockroaches – which they have no business living with, but I do. And I realize that their way of thinking is fundamentally different from ours. In addition, they are not cheaper or more labor intensive. I believe in the Romanian workforce,” says Cătălin Mahu.
Source: Profit.ro
