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I have been one for causes, doing something because it is the right thing to do. Well this week was no exception to that.
A restaurant in the area is in trouble. A lot of people became ill after eating there on the 28th or 29th of January. The culprit, the norovirus. No doubt you remember this nasty virus. At least in Michigan there have been schools sent home for several days to stop the spread of it. Also for a while there were all those people getting sick on the cruise lines and having to come back to port.
In this case it appears it was one to four employees that were ill and still worked since the restaurant did not provide some form of sick time for their employees. One story says the restaurant required the employees to come in to work, another story says that the employees are informed that if they are sick they need to report it and not work. What is the full story, I am sure we will never completely know. At any rate corrective measures have been taken and
they have made it through an uneventful month but the damage has been done. Local media continues to unjustly poke at the restaurant. At one point it was a story that needed to be told, now it is just bad journalism to sell newspapers and get more listeners. Where are all the news articles about all the good this restaurant does for the community? Some people will never go back there. Personally I do not see how they will recover from this.
Last Thursday the local business association and rotary arranged a night to show support for them asking people to come out for dinner. I showed up about 5:30 and enjoyed a wonderful dinner, enjoyable conversation with the bartender who is originally from Traverse City, and twist my arm, several drafts of beer before dashing out to see my latest addiction, American Idol. There were a bunch of other people there for the same reason that night but the restaurant was far from full. I really wish them well and hope this unfortunate incident does not put this one store out of business.
Boy, you file one multi-million dollar claim and all that good neighbor crap just flies out the window. --Married ... With Children
A restaurant in the area is in trouble. A lot of people became ill after eating there on the 28th or 29th of January. The culprit, the norovirus. No doubt you remember this nasty virus. At least in Michigan there have been schools sent home for several days to stop the spread of it. Also for a while there were all those people getting sick on the cruise lines and having to come back to port.
In this case it appears it was one to four employees that were ill and still worked since the restaurant did not provide some form of sick time for their employees. One story says the restaurant required the employees to come in to work, another story says that the employees are informed that if they are sick they need to report it and not work. What is the full story, I am sure we will never completely know. At any rate corrective measures have been taken and
they have made it through an uneventful month but the damage has been done. Local media continues to unjustly poke at the restaurant. At one point it was a story that needed to be told, now it is just bad journalism to sell newspapers and get more listeners. Where are all the news articles about all the good this restaurant does for the community? Some people will never go back there. Personally I do not see how they will recover from this.
Last Thursday the local business association and rotary arranged a night to show support for them asking people to come out for dinner. I showed up about 5:30 and enjoyed a wonderful dinner, enjoyable conversation with the bartender who is originally from Traverse City, and twist my arm, several drafts of beer before dashing out to see my latest addiction, American Idol. There were a bunch of other people there for the same reason that night but the restaurant was far from full. I really wish them well and hope this unfortunate incident does not put this one store out of business.
Boy, you file one multi-million dollar claim and all that good neighbor crap just flies out the window. --Married ... With Children
Posted by barman at 10:03 AM::
If you work in a kitchen you're not meant to work if you're ill like that.
However, if your company doesnt provide sick pay and you have rent and bills to pay, what you gonna do?
I realize that. I am sure the employee did not do this on purpose. I also realize that providing sick time is a burden on the employer and some people take advantage of such things too.
In the end I am not trying to place blame. I am just saying they have owned up to the problem, have fully cooperated with officials and have made needed changes. It is time for the media to move on. They can dust it back off when ever what ever law suits surface.
BAR, one of the scariest things to read is the health department report of restaurant kitchens conditions. I know that I have sent food back for being under-cooked, for tasting mold, and once in Alexandria, Virginia, I bit into what looked like a delicious bacon burger only to see a small cockroach drop out of it and walk away. I didn't finish that meal.
Sorry, but if staff showed up for work while ill, even if the place had a policy about it, I'd take the side of the customer. Send the person home, remind them of the rules. Fire them if you have to to make an example to others. This kind of thing, oviously, can ruin a business. When in doubt, blame management, or the lack of it.
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