Chef who boasted she had spiked a vegan customers meal with meat....

Vintage wrote:What a stupid thing to do, didn't she think there'd be consequences, a bit stupid to brag about it and rather mean to have done it anyway, she was still making money out of the vegan customers. I wonder if she'd consider spiking someone meal with peanuts if they ask for allergy free meals.

eddie wrote:

Vintage wrote:What a stupid thing to do, didn't she think there'd be consequences, a bit stupid to brag about it and rather mean to have done it anyway, she was still making money out of the vegan customers. I wonder if she'd consider spiking someone meal with peanuts if they ask for allergy free meals.

Well said and I totally agree, it was downright spitefully mean.

I have one further point to add: Once you give up meat, believe me, you can taste the animal fat in almost anything that has it in (jelly literally tastes like strawberry-flavoured animal fat, milk tastes so fatty it's unreal).  Any meat stock would be strong enough to make vegans aware immediately if their food was spiked.

I mean, I'm not kidding here! I'm pretty sure they'd taste any meat product...how come it wasn't raised by them?

eddie wrote:Thank you Vod. It's actually a return to my old colour from years ago, I was always red.

Mine isn't semi-permanent, I never do things halfway.

Syl wrote:She is grovelling now....too little too late, and she must be nasty to have done it in the first place.
I doubt her restaurant will stay open, people don't forget things like this.

HoratioTarr wrote:

Syl wrote:She is grovelling now....too little too late, and she must be nasty to have done it in the first place.
I doubt her restaurant will stay open, people don't forget things like this.

I read that the diner ordered away from the vegan menu and the offending item was a pizza with mozarella.   No meat involved.  People, as usual, ar using social media to twist things round to their own agenda.   Mind you, the chef should have kept off social media and not posted anything at all.  Unprofessional and bad for business even if she hadn't offended anyone.

Cass wrote:What a stupid woman. She doesn’t deserve death threats but her own fault if she loses her restaurant. As someone with a food allergy you don’t muck about with food you are selling to others. What a complete dumbass to put it on social media too.

Didge wrote:

Cass wrote:What a stupid woman. She doesn’t deserve death threats but her own fault if she loses her restaurant. As someone with a food allergy you don’t muck about with food you are selling to others. What a complete dumbass to put it on social media too.

Or you could actually see what she has accomplished here.

She has thus deterred many vegitarians, whilst plugging her Restaurant. As a meat feast.

This was not dumb, but premeditated

Didge wrote:

Cass wrote:What a stupid woman. She doesn’t deserve death threats but her own fault if she loses her restaurant. As someone with a food allergy you don’t muck about with food you are selling to others. What a complete dumbass to put it on social media too.

Or you could actually see what she has accomplished here.

She has thus deterred many vegitarians, whilst plugging her Restaurant. As a meat feast.

This was not dumb, but premeditated

Syl wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:

I read that the diner ordered away from the vegan menu and the offending item was a pizza with mozarella.   No meat involved.  People, as usual, ar using social media to twist things round to their own agenda.   Mind you, the chef should have kept off social media and not posted anything at all.  Unprofessional and bad for business even if she hadn't offended anyone.

She was stupid, she is blaming her long hours, her tiredness, and booze.

Posting death threats to her so the police have to get involved is a sad sign of the times though....just avoiding eating at her place if this upsets you should be enough surely.

Syl wrote:

The blanked out word was C***.
Pissed or not you should never talk publicly about your customers like that.

Its reported she now feels suicidal, a HUGE over reaction by everyone.....another downside to social media.

Maddog wrote:What's a vegan restaurant?    

Miffs2 wrote:She has resigned her job.

harvesmom wrote:I don't think she actually did anything wrong....until she decided to take to social media tired, and drunk.
As I understand it she had spent hours preparing vegan dishes then someone from the group ordered a pizza topped with mozzarella. No spiking, no deceit, no meat, just a pissed off chef.
To compound the problem, instead of shutting up and logging off she then engaged in a serious of arguments on the restaurants facebook page and got very abusive towards people.
I don't see how she can resign anyway since she is part owner of the restaurants. She will just be replaced in the kitchen till it all blows over.  I don't have a lot of sympathy though, you cant treat customers like that and expect to stay in business.

Cass wrote:

harvesmom wrote:I don't think she actually did anything wrong....until she decided to take to social media tired, and drunk.
As I understand it she had spent hours preparing vegan dishes then someone from the group ordered a pizza topped with mozzarella. No spiking, no deceit, no meat, just a pissed off chef.
To compound the problem, instead of shutting up and logging off she then engaged in a serious of arguments on the restaurants facebook page and got very abusive towards people.
I don't see how she can resign anyway since she is part owner of the restaurants. She will just be replaced in the kitchen till it all blows over.  I don't have a lot of sympathy though, you cant treat customers like that and expect to stay in business.

Apparently the restaurant has a board to whom she tendered her resignation. They could demand she resign. She may own just 1% of the restaurant. They also stated that they had a pre-planned recruitment drive to find an additional chef already in place.

That sounds very much like full speed damage control on the part of the board.

There is actually a vegan mozzarella. Maybe that person in the party wasn’t a vegan?

But like I said, I don’t feel sorry for her.

harvesmom wrote:

Cass wrote:

Apparently the restaurant has a board to whom she tendered her resignation. They could demand she resign. She may own just 1% of the restaurant. They also stated that they had a pre-planned recruitment drive to find an additional chef already in place.

That sounds very much like full speed damage control on the part of the board.

There is actually a vegan mozzarella. Maybe that person in the party wasn’t a vegan?

But like I said, I don’t feel sorry for her.

I THINK the pre planned recruitment drive was for their other restaurant, I could be wrong though. Just picked that up off social media.

There seems to be only 3 shareholders for the 2 restaurants anyway, her and her fiance and 1 other, according to Companies House she hasnt officially resigned as yet. Mind you the business has a net worth of -£10k so I doubt any of them will be trading for much longer with or without her!

It smacks of a desperate "any publicity is good publicity" to me. Do or die!

Syl wrote:It takes years to build a business up and now, with the aid of social media, seconds to ruin it.

eddie wrote:

Syl wrote:It takes years to build a business up and now, with the aid of social media, seconds to ruin it.

No, it's not social media who can ruin a 'someone' - it's a person's actions that can ruin them.  Don't do fuckeries and expect to get away with it.

Syl wrote:

eddie wrote:

Syl wrote:It takes years to build a business up and now, with the aid of social media, seconds to ruin it.

No, it's not social media who can ruin a 'someone' - it's a person's actions that can ruin them.  Don't do fuckeries and expect to get away with it.

Initially she was stupid, no denying that, but before social media her comments wouldn't have spread like wildfire enabling every Tom Dick and Harry to throw in their two cents worth.

So yes....with the aid of social media, a business can be ruined in hours.

eddie wrote:

Syl wrote:

Initially she was stupid, no denying that, but before social media her comments wouldn't have spread like wildfire enabling every Tom Dick and Harry to throw in their two cents worth.

So yes....with the aid of social media, a business can be ruined in hours.

Good. If you're gonna do bad business then your shit should be spread like muck so people can avoid you.

She's a bitch and not fit to run a responsible business. As someone said, you don't fuck about with people's food.