This one has been bugging me for a long time. As I mentioned in a earlier post, there is a local food blog that I read, mostly for a good chuckle, and I will not mention the name because of the trouble our colleague Mikey with his blog(more on that fourthcoming). This blogger is a real knucklehead. Writes reviews on local restaurants, takes master food preserving and garden classes blah blah blah blah blah. They have deleted more of my comments than have stayed. Like I said, knows a little about everything. I really cant stand it and it gets me fired up every time I read it. Here's an example, just a little sample: "I think I’ve turned a corner on my academic work. It’s taken me nine months of struggle to finish up loose ends left dangling from my dissertation exile, publish a couple of articles, invent a few new classes for the job I started immediately after finishing the Ph.D., start new work for conferences and grant proposals, make travel plans, plus a host of other teaching and administrative stuff that’s par for the course. But I’ve done it." Now what the fuck that has to do with food I dont know, but it's cool you have a Ph.D..
The first time I read this blog it was complaining about how employees are treated by employers. An iconic restaurant in our little town closed a year or so ago.....someone bought it from the original owners as a hobby and ran it into the ground. They ended up closing the place. This blogger was enraged that the employees got no notice other than a sign on the door when they showed up for their shifts. How unethical of them. How dare they treat their waitstaff, busboys, and dishwashers like they are expendable. FUCKING NEWSFLASH:WE ARE. No one is bigger than any one place. I hope you all know that. Now, Ive never owned a restaurant, and I don't know if you all have or not. I would like to think I wouldn't run it into the ground, but you never know. My question to you is how would you handle it if you had to close? Would you give everyone(including the crack head dishwasher,drunk ass line cook, and fucking greedy waiter)two weeks notice so the could steal you blind? I don't think of myself as too much of a prick, but my bottom line is that unless I really know you, and I mean REALLY know you I don't fucking trust you......so for me no one gets notice. How about you?
3 comments:
Even the kindest restaurateur tells NO ONE until the last possible minute. Rumors spread too fast in our trade and it only hurts business when you most need to bring in whatever revenue you can.
I would think the staff could smell the end approaching. If you do 30 covers in a week and Sysco does not show at all, something is up. I would be more pissed about my knife kit, uniforms, and other personal effects.
Is there ever a "right way" to close a restaurant? Maybe treat them like the children of recent divorce and tell the employees, "It's all your fault."
The reality is that the fucking banks who won't support us anymore should have to be the one to tell them. I know what restaurant you speak of meatsaltbuttrock. The reality of it is that no matter how butt hurt a laid off employee or Dr. Blogger is about how the restaurant closed, they will never feel the pain of the owner of such restaurant when they realized it is time to stop the bleeding and close the place down.
Is there a class at the local community college on "How to close down your business in a failing economy?" Not likely.
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