A sharp rise in the sales tax has decimated the restaurant sector.
By contrast, he said, the restaurant sector is down 4percentt.
The London restaurant sector does not compare itself to the rest of the country.
According to an investigation by the French economics programme Capital, the restaurant sector is where undeclared income is highest.
This means the restaurant sector offering training to attract and recruit resident workers to meet their staffing needs.
It was harming the image of the restaurant sector, making "our people look like beggars", as one man told me.
Except that the Chinese restaurant sector has moved on since he opened Yauatcha and Hakkasan more than a decade ago.
doubled on the first day of trading and established investor interest in the quick-service restaurant sector.
The rest of this restaurant sector has also expanded at pace, largely due to mushrooming burrito bar chains.
The restaurant sector is dominated by a handful of big players, who own several different chains and use the blanket policy over all their brands.
In the food and restaurant sector, meanwhile, the long-escalating debate about obesity is now resulting in calls for further controls on the marketing of unhealthy foods.
