In their recent interview with The Currency, the multi-award-winning restaurateurs Ahmet Dede and Maria Archer explained how much of their business’s resources went towards providing free accommodation as part of the employment package for their staff. Archer told me this was “essential” to recruitment as “there is nothing available”. Dede detailed the property fleet they have to maintain: three chefs live in flats above each of their two restaurants in Baltimore, Co Cork. Three more houses between the village and the nearest town, Skibbereen, are home to their employees. That’s without counting one of their relatives who works in the…

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