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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习： 英国咖喱名店后续乏力 GRE考试模拟：GRE阅读练习： 英国咖喱名店后续乏力 GRE考试精品课程训练  THE curry house is a British institution. Every town has at least one. Ballater, a tiny village in the icy remoteness of northern Scotland, boasts two. It is also the economic bulwark of a community. Bangladeshis run most of the countrys Indian restaurants, and they depend heavily on the trade. Fully 42% of working-age Bangladeshi men toil in restaurants. But changes in eating habits, immigration rules and growing aspirations add up to trouble for the industry.  咖喱屋是英国的习俗。每个乡镇至少都有一个。在寒冷的苏格兰北部偏远的一个小村庄—巴拉特，拥有两家。这也是一个社会的经济堡垒。孟加拉国人经营着英国多数的印度餐馆，他们在很大程度上依赖于贸易。孟加拉国42%的处于劳动年龄的男子都在餐馆中劳碌。但是英国民众饮食习惯的改变、现行的英国移民政策以及孟加拉国民对刺激日益增长的热情，都为行业发展增添了困难。  Following the financial crisis, people cut back on eating out but ordered more takeaways, says Oli Khan, a Bangladeshi chef who owns four establishments. Now even the takeaway trade is struggling. A quarter of curry-lovers say they have swapped restaurant meals or takeaways for supermarket ready meals. Spending on poppa dums rose by 40% between 2009 and 2013, according to Kantar World panel, a research firm.  拥有四个场所的孟加拉国厨师—奥利汗表示，在金融危机之后，人们减少了外出就餐，但增加了叫外卖的次数。现在连外卖行业都是夹缝求生。有四分之一的咖喱爱好者表示，他们已经不再餐厅用餐或叫外卖，而是吃超市现成的饭菜。Kantar World panel表示，2009至2013年间印度薄饼的销售量增长了40%。  Indian restaurants have missed the trend for casual dining, says Helena Spicer, an analyst at Mintel, another market researcher. Other eateries focus on particular groups of diners—the rushed, the monied—but curry houses try to appeal to everyone. Rising food and gas bills are eating into profits. Most are independent so reap none of the benefits of economies of scale. Nor can they run big marketing campaigns.  另一家市场研究公司—敏特公司的分析师海伦娜斯派塞分析：印度餐馆已经偏离了休闲餐饮的主流。其它的一些餐馆关注于特定食客群体，匆忙的，有钱的，但是咖喱屋试图做到面向大众。上涨的食品费和燃气费正在抵消所获利润。大多数餐馆都是独立经营所以没有从规模经济中获得的好处。当然也不可能经营大型市场营销活动。  And staff costs are soaring. “Chefs have become like gold dust,” says Enam Ali, a re