Eater.Com
By Chris Fuhrmeister
October 29, 2015
Every restaurant in America would shut down.'
Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump's strong stance on illegal
immigration has already drawn serious backlash from the restaurant
industry, and celebrity chefs
José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian have pulled restaurants from Trump's
new Washington, D.C., hotel. Now ex-cook and current world-traveling TV
host Anthony Bourdain is getting into the mix. Bourdain made an
appearance on SiriusXM's StandUP With Pete Dominick
and defended America's undocumented workers.
I
grew up in the restaurant business — 30 years in the restaurant
business. I came out of, like a lot of other white kids, I rolled out of
a prestigious culinary institute
and went to work in real restaurants. I walked into restaurants and
always, the person who had been there the longest, who took the time to
show me how it was done, was always Mexican or Central American. The
backbone of the industry - meaning most of the
people in my experience cooking, preparing your food. Twenty of those
years in this business I was an employer, I was a manager employer.
Never, in any of those years, not once, did anyone walk into my
restaurant — any American-born kid — walk into my restaurant
and say I'd like a job as a night porter or a dishwasher. Even a prep
cook — few and far between. Just not willing to start at the bottom like
that.
Bourdain
went on to say that if Trump were to win the presidency and deport 11
million illegal immigrants, "every restaurant in America would shut
down," and restaurant
owners share his sentiment because "they'd be up the creek. ... It is
really, really getting hard to find people to do the jobs."
It's
not the first time Bourdain has commented on Trump. He previously said
The Donald "offends me" and the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City is "the
enemy of the human
spirit." Bourdain hasn't given his coveted endorsement for the 2016
election, but he threw his support behind Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008.
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