Commerce Ministry pushes to develop Thai restaurants

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Commerce Ministry pushes to develop Thai restaurants

BANGKOK, 23 May 2016 (NNT) - The Ministry of Commerce has been preparing to push forward Thai restaurants as outstanding service businesses that generate income for the country.

Commerce Minister Abhiradee Tantraporn disclosed that the Minister of Commerce has a policy to accelerate promoting Thai service businesses, with an emphasis in restaurant businesses so that they have a business management system which is equivalent to international standards.

She has instructed the Department of Commerce to seriously promote Thai restaurant businesses by collaborating with the Food Franchise Institue (FFI) to organize a 36-hour intensive training course. The training will seek to provide knowledge on management, modern marketing, technology, innovation, human resources management, financial and accounting management to the entrepreneurs to increase their potential and standardize the quality of Thai restaurants.


-- NNT 2016-05-23

[BigBadGeordie]

Good move, promoting Thai restaurants, as most of the Thais I have met never ever know where to find food.

[colinneil]

Promote Thai restaurants good idea.

Hey this is Thailand, bit stupid for them to promote Chinese restaurants.

[NongKhaiKid]

Only in LoS.

The govt has to promote restaurants providing the food eaten here everyday.

[taony]

Maybe the training could include advice to restaurant owners to either reduce the number of items on their menus or actually buy the ingredients to make what's on there! its become routine to go to restaurants and get the 'ol mai mee three or four times! just tell me what you have!

[northernboy]

Whoo! You can learn restaurant management in 36 hours in Thailand. See maybe western students can come here and learn. Would save them a lot of time. Must be truly intensive.

[Redline]

Will prices rise?

[MZurf]

Why not try to make Thailand the hub of Thai restaurants?? Radical idea, I know, but surely even the present bunch of less than stellar performers should be able to accomplish that....

And it would look so good the next time the junta are presenting their achievements:

-State lottery reform!

-Thailand the hub of Thai restaurants!

-Beach chairs in Phuket gone!

-............OK guys, help me out here!

[Winniedapu]

Good move, promoting Thai restaurants, as most of the Thais I have met never ever know where to find food.

I'm sure this has been done before. In 2004 I visited a Thai restaurant in Beaconsfield, UK, It was licensed under the official Thai government 'Elephant' franchise and the food and service were both atrocious. I also visited an 'official' Thai restaurant in Fleet Street, London, and it was clear the staff and management didn't want to be there and didn't care who knew it.

Been done before, nothing new in this. Another desperate and non-original, recycled 'initiative'.

Winnie