The Australian restaurant industry is the latest to experience the difficulties of the country’s major skills shortage with a severe lack of chefs in cities such as Adelaide and Perth. With up to 3,000 jobs unfilled qualified chefs will find it very enticing to emigrate to Australia under the Australian skilled migration program.

Restaurant and Catering South Australia chief executive officer Sally Neville stated: “We are probably about 250 chefs short at any given time in SA and probably the same number in front of house staff.”

In Perth, where the shortage of qualified chefs is at an almost critical level, chefs and cooks are being brought in from Bali to combat the problem. Australian Hotels Association general manager Ian Horne predicts that South Australia is headed the same way and stated his belief that major Australian immigration incentives are needed if the situation is to be addressed.

“A lot of poaching goes on” he commented. “It tends to be about better conditions or better money”.

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