Asylum hotel group awarded £2.5billion taxpayer deal faces claims secret Deliveroo and Uber Eats takeaway kitchen was being run from inside one of its branches

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14871121/Asylum-hotel-awarded-ran-secret-Deliveroo-Uber-Eats-takeaway-kitchen.html

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  1. Conscious-Cake6284 on

    It very much wasn’t a secret, this is a non story, literally Facebook rumours.

  2. No_Professor5605 on

    I seen the video and what I can’t understand is them cars just sat in the car park with no plates on.

  3. BernardMarxAlphaPlus on

    Every migrant involved needs to be deported, no chance of appeals, straight to deportation.

  4. Cedar Court run Absurd Stacks out of their Wakefield, Huddersfield and Bradford locations for online food deliveries. The guys in the video are frothing at the bit to find anything negative about Asylum Hotels but all they find is a kitchen. No residents working, non making deliveries they just assume they are.

    The kitchen at the Wakefield location is used for the residents and anyone visiting the leisure facilities. If the kitchen (5 star hygiene rating as of Sept 24) can run as a ghost kitchen for a food delivery business then why not?

    Now if residents are working the kitchen and making deliveries then we have a problem as they’re unlikely to be working legally and paying tax. But the video doesn’t show that.

    It’s also very hard to find anything about ‘Big Boi Burger’. If they are or were running a food delivery service they either did a very bad job of promoting it or wiped it off the face of the earth.

  5. Illustrious_Bat_6971 on

    £2.5 B…..um? Half of the proposed Welfare Reform bill.

    Labour, UK….wake up!!

  6. irishshogun on

    Plenty of those videos online showing uber eats etc bikes coming and going from the hotels. Look at those auditor videos

  7. redeemable-soul on

    I watched a video on YouTube yesterday where a couple of guys went to a migrant hotel and there was a kitchen being run from there with pickup point for Deliveroo and Uber eats. The staff confirmed to the police that there was a delivery service being run from there.
    The takeaway was called Big Boy Burgers if I remember right.

  8. catman_dave on

    I’ve never rented commercial property, so not sure exactly how these things work but would the wording of the contract between government / accomodation middleman company and owner not show who is profiting from this and if they’re doing something shady or illegal ?

    Either the hotel was leased to the accomodation middleman company excluding the kitchens, and the owner is leasing them to whoever is running the takeaway OR the middleman accomodation company leased the whole property including the kitchens on taxpayer money and is now getting a bonus by subletting the kitchens.

  9. ImActivelyTired on

    I’m shocked…

    Nah just kidding.. it’s already common knowledge that a large % of legal/illegal migrants work illegally.

    However i would be astounded if the government actually did something to address it, now that would leave me flabbergasted.

  10. I saw this video the other day. There was zero proof that any asylum seeker was working in the kitchen.

    They basically just wandered in, filmed an empty kitchen for 1 minute and were then escorted back out by security.

    How that is a story is beyond me.

  11. Go to some of these hotels. You will see e-bikes chained to lampposts and I don’t mean one or two, I mean 3 to a lamppost on multiple lampposts all within walking distance of the hotel.

    If you manage to sweet talk your way past security you will also see posters for these food delivery apps plastered in the lobby and common room, along with their football tables and ping pong tables.

  12. Raymond_Redditingon on

    Approved by the local council. People knew. It wasn’t a secret.

  13. ash_ninetyone on

    £2.5bn?

    And they couldn’t have used that money to build more immigration centres, hire staff home office staff, or fund social housing with money to build it quick?

    Someone connected to a politician made bunts off this surely. Something stinks

  14. I really don’t like people who vote reform but this is why they vote reform.

  15. This is why my partner and I only get takeaway from the local curry place who hire someone for deliveries OR the chinese that is the same.

    It’s not a stance against immigration and more I worry about ghost ktichens and stuff like this. Maybe im just old, but If I got to a restaurant and there’s a constant stream of takeaway business it makes me less inclined to eat there. The only place we will go to is the local turkish place and that’s because its BYOB and cheap.

  16. ColdAsKompot on

    People are starting to realise we are not facing a humanitarian crisis but a multi-billion industry. The sooner this lunacy ends, the better.

  17. no_com_ment on

    The sheer audacity of this guy!!!

    Beyond the illegality of the whole operation – rightly condemned – he gets 2.5 billion from me and you then uses the Asian asylum seekers to work the kitchen and the Africans to deliver!!! Could do with some of that sideways thinking in the government tbf!!!

  18. If I had access to an unused hotel kitchen and loads of people with no work, I would absolutely make and sell food with them

  19. PatchesOHoulihannnn on

    England is a fucking jokeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! English goveement are the laughing stock of the world, absolutely embarrassed to be English

  20. Vivid-Blacksmith-122 on

    i don’t understand why Uber and Deliveroo can’t just use facial recognition software. when someone picks up a delivery the person collecting it has to match the person on the ID.

  21. THE MIGRANTS ARENT MAKINGTHE FOOD!!!!

    The hotel kitchen is selling food that it makes on delivery services under a different name.

  22. ChiliSquid98 on

    Someone said something about picking up food from a hotel where the kitchen looked filthy

  23. No_Seesaw1503 on

    2.5 fucking billion what? Some leftist tosspot will be in here yapping on about how that’s a good thing.

    Get them all out followed by the corrupt politicians, greedy bastard hotel owners and the lefty lunatics.

  24. TheChaoticCrusader on

    Why has all this not sparked an investigation with these companies ? Surely if it’s know that they keep hiring people who are not suppose to work and thus is illegal they should go down for it?

  25. istoodonalego on

    This is not as big of a story as is being made out.

    Lots of professional kitchens double as dark kitchens, I’ve personally seen this to be the case for lots of pub kitchens, event hire halls, and even a couple of hotels/hostels.

    This article even states clearly “However, the Home Office said in a statement residents living in the hotel ‘were not involved’ in running the kitchen.”

    So what’s the story here? The government has booked out a whole hotel, and it was expected that the entire facility was exclusively at their disposal. Despite this, the kitchen has been rented out as a dark kitchen (either with the hotel groups knowledge, or perhaps as a backhander to the hotel manager).

    This first situation is running parallel to the whole story about pending asylum seekers delivering food illegally.

    So now the contract between the govt and the hotel needs looking at, to see if the contract has been breached, or if the contract was not good enough.

  26. Which companies were they making food for?

    There is exactly zero chance they didn’t know.

    Punish the people exploiting these people and paying them.