Restaurant employing people with disabilities opens in Budapest

A restaurant exclusively employing people with disabilities opened in Budapest’s 12th district local council building on Wednesday.

The restaurant run by the Kék Madár Foundation is the Budapest branch of a team which already operates a similar establishment in the southern Hungarian city of Szekszárd.

District Mayor Zoltán Pokorni told the opening event of the restaurant named Hegyvideki Izlelo that the district promoted openness and inclusivity and this is why he had supported the opening of the restaurant in the council building.

Human Resources Ministry state secretary for social affairs Attila Fülöp said it was very important that people with disabilities should be given the chance to live a full life, and the state’s aim was to expand work opportunities for them.

Starting from this year, the government has made the employment of people with disabilities exempt from labour-related taxes up to twice the minimum wage, he added.