Raymond Blanc backs Boris Johnson's apprentice campaign Mr Blanc, famous for Le Manoir aux Quat" Saisons, his Michelin-starred hotel and restaurant near Oxford, will announce the recruitment of a cadre of young people to the training scheme at his Brasserie Blanc restaurant when he meets the London mayor on Wednesday. Brasserie Blanc has been expanding its London presence, where several of the chain's 20 restaurants are now based. However, Mr Blanc believes that restaurants there are not doing enough to produce home-grown talent and says the industry's low pay levels are not the root of the problem. Low pay is a secondary problem. The primary problem has been that the people coming into our industry viewed it as a second choice. We want to make it a first choice.