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[–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

It differs based on country and which immigrants they got when.

In Denmark as an example; there's a fairly clear cut between Turks making döner, Kurds making pizza and Iranians making shawarma

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    We had an explosion in turkish owned restaurants starting in the 90s here - and the larger ones tend to offer everything, and i mean everything. The flyers are filled with a humongous amount of different dishes, but they have all the tendency to taste somewhat similar (they do not taste bad, mind you, but if my Döner tastes similar to my indian food because they use mostly the same spices for both, it all blends together into a "Taste palette of the restaurant").

    Turks are one of the main group of people who immigrated in the 60s-90s (they were called Gastarbeiter, guest workers), and it took them decades of work to actually fulfill their dream of building a business. Then Covid came, and it caused a lot of those restaurants to shut their doors, while ghost kitchens started to appear (which hadn't been a thing here before).

    Nowadays the same people will never have a real chance of accumulating enough wealth to actually start a business.

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