What is the Fifteen restaurant?
Fifteen is the name of the restaurants and the supporting charitable foundation. The foundation’s mission is to inspire disadvantaged youth, including those with drug or alcohol problems, the unemployed and the homeless, to believe in themselves and the possibility of becoming chefs.
What is the purpose of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen?
Fifteen’s purpose is to train and rehabilitate the vulnerable young people in our society. Through our love and passion for great food, we’re able to give the apprentices a second chance at life, giving them the skills they need to build a successful career.
What is Fifteen at Watergate Bay now?
A new pop-up restaurant is to open at Watergate Bay, in the space that previously housed Fifteen Cornwall eatery. Opening on Thursday July 9, Emily Scott Food will offered ‘relaxed dining with the safety of social distancing’ serving a menu of ‘hyper-local’ cuisine from Tuesdays to Saturdays for lunch and dinner.
Why Did Jamie Oliver start cooking?
Motivated by the lack of nutrition in U.K. school lunches, Jamie wanted to educate and motivate kids and school administrators to enjoy cooking and eating nutritious lunches. He launched a national campaign called Feed Me Better with an online petition for better school meals that garnered 271,677 signatures.
Where was the First Fifteen restaurant in London?
Oliver founded the original Fifteen restaurant in London and put young people at its heart. Since 2002 two further restaurants opened in Amsterdam and Cornwall.
Who is the founder of the Fifteen restaurant?
Fifteen restaurant and its associated charity was a concept originally created by British chef Jamie Oliver in London in 2002 when he realised he could use his skills and energy to offer disadvantaged and marginalised young people with tough backgrounds an opportunity to train to be chefs. Oliver founded…
When did Fifteen restaurant burn down in Melbourne?
Melbourne, Australia was the fourth restaurant in the Fifteen ‘family’. On 8 June 2008, the offices of Fifteen Melbourne was burned in a fire lit by its former manager, Kevin Stralow.
How many people work at Fifteen Cornwall restaurant?
Chefs and waiting staff at the restaurant, which uses the celebrity chef’s name under licence but is owned and run by a charitable trust, were told the business would be shutting its doors on Thursday afternoon. About 70 people work at the restaurant and a further 30 work at the Cornwall Food Foundation charity, which will also be wound up.