Restaurant booms in Iraqi Kurdistan  7.4.2010  

According to the basic estimation of the number of restaurants, the statistic official in Health office, Polis Denha said “Close to 461 public and 33 tourist restaurants exist which is considered to massive increasing, if we compared with the previous years in Erbil.”

Regarding to the conditions for opening new restaurants and fast food centers, Denha added “we have set out several terms to open a new restaurant, for instance the area must not less than 15 m, clean position, ceramic wall design, setting exchange air system together with private cloth for workers.”

At the mean time, he does not hide his concern about the movable fast food restaurants which are lacks health conditions due to difficulty to control them but we have punished some of restaurant owners pay accounting 350,000 Iraqi Diners (ID) as a fine together with closing their restaurants for 3 days, so I demand the locals to be more aware about the foods that they eat in the restaurants.”

Regarding to the restaurant owners reactions, Farhad Awni said “we are have submitted to our costumers different kind foods without any obstacles for 20 years.”

“We are so optimistic to expand the restaurants which have the great impact on the economic aspects, but we might expect to release health problems without basic health principles,” the economist Shalaw Ahmed, said.

Regarding to the restaurant professional qualities, Ahmed added “the Kurdistan Universities together with tourist foundations must use its efforts to set the tie program for managing the tourist positions and restaurants in the standard way, including emerging the professional officials to run the restaurants in the perfect way in Kurdistan Region.”

“We are surprised to the massive increase of the restaurant numbers in the entire places in the province, because there were few restaurants in the couple past decades but we have seen restaurants and fast food centers in every location in Erbil city,” 67 year-old-man, Sabir Abdullah stated.

We are concern about lack of food marketing in my restaurant due we were considered as the top restaurant in four past decades in the provinces by preparing different kind of foods,www.ekurd.netbut we have lost our customers right after couple past decades because of massive enhancing restaurant numbers in the city, Traditional Restaurant Owner, Adnan Shaker said.

However, some old people mentioned some names, who had constructed restaurants in the previous five decades, the 50-years-old restaurant owner, Faroq Ali said, “I remember some names such as, Hajji Sharief Shnoi, Hajji Ahmed, Darwesh Ali and Hajji Abo, who were considered as the best restaurant cooker and owner that had built restaurants in the city at that time.”

Regarding to expending the restaurant numbers, the Restaurant Owner, Hazem Yassein, “we are considered that spending leisure times outside at nights by the locals have the great impact to increase the restaurant numbers in the city together with enhancing the number of tourists, especially the tourists from south and central Iraq to Kurdistan Region.”

Erbil, at the same time, is considered as the best city to host guests and foreign people in the entire Iraq.

Sometimes, we spend nice time together with my husband and our children, because we would like to eat something outside for pleasure, 51-years-old-woman, Zhian Muhsein said.

The city of Erbil is becoming the core center to grow up the economic and tourist aspects, including creating job opportunities and individual incomes, especially the latest restaurant and fast food centers in Iskan, Shorsh, and Kirkuk street areas have considered as the most attractive restaurants in the city.     

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