The committee issued a press release announcing the initiative of a Haredi organization that hires out its services in providing waiters and waitresses for events.
Instead of just promoting the new business and even suggesting that it would be better to "support people from our own community", the press release goes on talking about how bad the current situation is.
They write how the people currently working as waiters and waitresses at our events dress inappropriately, are not familiar with our culture and behavioral norms and are therefore rude to us, they don't like us and they make it obvious, they give poor service, they ruin the holy atmosphere of our events and neighborhoods when they change after the events and then go walking out dressed in their secular garb and walking in their mixed groups and talking and pritzus. They wear kippot that are tiny and constantly fall off. On Shabbos events they cause chilul shabbos. Baalei simcha have to worry about keeping the wine away from them.
source: Kikar
In general I think it is a great idea, and why not? They can go into any business they want, and Haredi businessmen do not need anybody's permission or approval. I guess for marketing purposes they want the committee behind them, as the committee will help them drum up business by pressuring the Haredi community to only use such Haredi businesses. And even if that requires some sort of payment to the committee, that is how business is done.
I don't think they needed to talk so badly about the people who have bene doing it until now, but maybe they are just playing up how bad they are so people will believe them and run to give their business in the future to the Haredi group.
They make it sound like the situation has been horrible until now. Weddings and bar mitzvahs and conferences have been utter disasters with the waiters and waitresses ruining everything. I have been to plenty of affairs and most of the time service is good and the waiters and waitresses act appropriately and professionally, though obviously sometimes you might get a bad waiter. I wince when I see they feel they must stoop to such denigration in order to promote someone else's business (that they are most likely making money off of) and wish they could have found a more positive way of promoting the initiative.
I assume the uniform of the new waiters int his new company will all have kashrut symbol, like the kosher cellphones. These will be called kosher waiters, or something like that
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