A COVID-19 slump in trade for curry restaurants could lead to “huge” unemployment in Britain’s Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani communities, industry experts have warned.
It comes as a new survey found a quarter of curry restaurant owners fear sales will not return to pre-pandemic levels. Around 86% of curry restaurants said they had lost up to three-quarters of their revenue when the virus struck last year.
British Curry Awards founder Enam Ali, called for the government to appoint a dedicated hospitality minister to focus on a strategy to rescue the struggling industry.
He said: “We now risk far more neighbourhood restaurants shutting their doors for good, wrecking what has been one of the country’s culinary success stories – the sector