Hi
I am an English Teacher in Kaohsiung, and would love for my boyfriend to be able to move here and work as well. Is there any market for western trained cooks in restaurants/hotels? Would they be able to offer sponsorship (ARC)? Has anyone ever done this before? Thanks in advance for your help!
Probably these places (hotels) are looking for chefs and sous-chefs, not line cooks.
It’s immensly difficult to get an ARC for a cook. Cooks are mostly lower educated in Taiwan and isn’t a job highly looked on.
If it were Taipei/Taipei county you would move to I could perhaps set up something you could work at my place. But still, it would ask for the right papers.
Anyway, good luck.
JB’s Bar brought in a south african chef and got an ARC for him, so yes it’s possible.
I’d suggest you ask him how.
Thanks a lot for your replies, I’ll look into JB’s bar, is it in Taipei or Kao? I really appreciate your help!
[quote=“Satellite TV”]JB’s Bar brought in a South African chef and got an ARC for him, so yes it’s possible.
I’d suggest you ask him how.[/quote]
Well satellite you don’t know how they did it, I know partially and have been in the process of bringing my own chef in myself.
I know what it is about and it’s not that easy, for big hotels it should be easier as they employ lawyers.
First of all line cook or cook, chef and sous-chef is altogether a different story.
Hotels or restaurants won’t hire a foreign cook, they hire chefs and sous-chefs, F&B managers and stuff.
Hiring foreign employees is really not easy, cook is a blue collar job in Taiwan and therefor not for foreigners, except when they are married to a Taiwanese citizen or have an APRC.
Believe me when I say, you can’t get an ARC as a “cook”, you can as an executive or sous or white collar job.
You could as a partner in a restaurant but than you would have to invest and wire money in the country.
… or the restaurant has to have a min. of 10 million NT$ turnover a year, than they could apply for a chef or sous-chef, ARC and work permit but not a cook.
Or you could set up another construction, but than you’d have to trust the people you work with.
JB’s is in Taipei BTW.
I’m in Taipei county, and in need of a chef.
I guess its just not going to work! He doesn’t have his red seal papers, he went through chef training last year but hasn’t logged in enough hours yet and thought he might find somewhere in Taiwan to do it while I am here teaching! Thank you so much for your help, good luck finding a chef for your restaurant!!!
The thing is, you need 5-8 years of working experience in the field of the job you are going to work at in Taiwan, when you don’t have a college degree.
College/university degrees need less woring experience.
You could work around this requirement by investing in your own company as a shareholder and when you can proof that the company needs you in Taiwan.
So, being a shareholder/owner of a company doesn’t mean that they give you a work permit and ARC automatically.
You could although try to find work at an international hotel chain with a branch in Taiwan and request for a sous-chef job in Taiwan. Big hotels can do things we can’t … but don’t ask me why.