Can a Thai national who cannot speak Thai open a restaurant in Bangkok and hire a foreign chef?

Hv other vacancy for kitchen helper foreigner?? Tq

No problem to open a company as a restaurant and hire a foreign chef cook. Problem will be running a restaurant without speaking and reading Thai language.

For every Farang (Foreign) worker you have as an employee you must hire 4 Thai workers.

You need to apply for and obtain a Thai ID card, otherwise you will also need a work permit. The Thai passport doesn't confer citizenship rights and sometimes it is difficult for a foreign-born Thai to gain citizenship. A lot of it is dependent on your parents' domicile and land ownership.

Hi Sarot, I'm a foreign Chef who's been in Pattaya City for the last few weeks and have been inquiring into some similar questions. As mentioned above you'll need to register your business with the Thai government first (not sure of the costs). As for the foreign Chef you'll have to sponsor him and need to prove that a Thai can't do the job (this isn't as difficult as it might sound, as their main concern is tax collection before native employment). That being said however, you will need to have at least two Thai employees before you can legally hire a foreign Chef. Also mentioned above, and depending on the type of resto your opening, your looking at at least 50k for a semi decent Chef and +++ for someone who's extremely good 😉... Ok, all that aside and ways around it: open your resto, figure your recipes, hire you staff and either train someone local or hire a not so chef chef, train them and pay them 20-25k to start (you can also ask them to pursue a non-immigrant b visa, as a "work visa" doesn't really exist; this costs around 3000 bhat). Once you've made some $ you can look at option 1 to bring your place to the next level. Hope this helps and if you have any more questions or need any assistance with getting your place up and running I also do consultation work (both FOH and BOH), and have considerable experience. Feel free to friend me up or msg me anytime.. Good luck!

Hemmm I hope you know that the wage of a Chef is quiet heavy, in Europe they got a minimum of 50-60,000 bahts monthly & up...

as you are a thai it will be easier, make a visit to the immigration services, ask them all the documents you need to hire a foreigner chef for your rest.

For the foreign side if he has the qualifications needed for the business you offer i think there won't have problem. Just wait wait at the queue. lol

ow i forgot, make a visit to the labour dep. to get all documents needed too for the WP.

you need to register the company first then apply for WP . not that hard