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Restaurant is serving up apprenticeships
Red Hot World Buffet's newest apprentice recruits
A LEEDS restaurant is showing the way forward by taking on apprentices to learn the trade.
Coinciding with National Apprenticeship Week – which runs until Friday – the business on The Headrow has added another eight young people to the six who began in September.
And there are plans to hire another ten in a month’s time.
Red Hot World Buffet and Bar is working with Remit Training to offer nine-month apprenticeships. Nationally, Red Hot aims to take on 200 apprentices over the next year across its seven restaurants.
Leeds restaurant manager Sandeep Mundepi said: “Red Hot is a busy restaurant and we look for a young team.
“We have 50 members of staff so we can train them as well as groom them the way we want.
“They can be future supervisors or managers.
“We are looking for them to bloom.
“When we put them in we are giving them proper training.”
Mr Mundepi said the apprentices would learn about all aspects of the business during their training. He said: “We give them a journey in nine months.”
Nathan Lorryman, who was taken on as an apprentice in Leeds in September and went on to win the restaurant’s Apprentice of the Year Award in January, said that taking up an apprenticeship was the right decision for him, and he recommended it to others.
The former Intake High School and Leeds West Academy pupil, told the YEP: “I heard about it on the Job Centre website.
“When I left sixth form I did not want to go to university so I thought I would look at jobs.”
He added: “It is a challenge.
“It’s given me the skills and the chance to learn them from people which I would not have otherwise.
“In today’s economy, without experience you get nowhere.
“I would recommend it because it gives you the hands-on skills.”
Mr Lorryman said that the apprentices work well together, and also get along with more established staff at the eating place.
Helen Shaw, a former apprentice herself, is now an executive with Remit Training which works with Red Hot to offer the apprenticeships.
She said: “For me the biggest factor is capturing the young person and building them to your way of life as a business.
“We have tried to reassure companies that apprenticeships is the only way to go.
“I don’t think apprenticeships are pushed enough at school. Generally schools are wanting to retain their starlets whereas we would like to get some of their starlets.”
She said that more young people are interested in apprenticeships today due to factors such as worries over university tuition fees and a desire to get into work in the trying economic climate.
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