Hospitality industry urged to ban swearing – updated
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Oliver: swearing condemned |
Swearing and bad behaviour in restaurants and hotels must be stamped out, says a leading industry figure.
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David Wilkinson, chairman of the Master Innholders, speaking at the 10th Annual Hotel General Managers Conference at the Dorchester hotel in London last Tuesday, told delegates that it was up to them to eradicate bad behaviour in the industry.
Wilkinson's comments came as he referred to amount of bad language and behaviour in the recent TV series about celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant in Hackney, east London.
Condemning swearing as unprofessional, Wilkinson said: "It is our responsibility to ban the use of bad language in our industry."
He said that although he "took his hat off" to Jamie Oliver for making the programme he was alarmed by the amount of swearing in it.
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