Day 3588: Destruction.

 

 

"Destruction": photos, ink drawing, digital collage.

 

 

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 Chef Bans Rude Diners From Restaurant, Gives Staff Member the Money From $1,200 Bill

It should go without saying that wealth doesn’t give someone carte blanche to treat people as they wish—especially those in service positions—but sometimes people need reminders. While bad or entitled behavior happens far too often, one chef called out a group of diners who racked up a high bill at his restaurant but treated a member of his staff poorly.

Lee Skeet is a chef at Cora, in Cardiff, UK, and he recently shared an email he penned to one of the people in the group. The diners spent $1,200 on dinner—the highest his restaurant has seen—but that didn’t stop him from speaking on his co-worker’s behalf.

Skeet posted a screenshot of the email in his tweet. “Dear [redacted], I wanted to firstly thank you for choosing my restaurant for your meal tonight, and I understand you had the biggest bill we've ever had on one table here,” he wrote. “Unfortunately throughout the evening, I was made aware that your party's behavior was inappropriate towards Lily, who runs front-of-house. She has told me that as a 22-year-old-girl she was talked down to, disrespected, and touched unwantedly by members of your group.”

The chef didn’t stop there and explained the toll it took on Lily. “I have spent the last hour having conversations with her that break my heart, make me feel like a sh*t employer, and a terrible dad, having my own daughter,” he said. Skeet then offered to refund the bill—minus £100 (about $123) that he believed should’ve gone to Lily. Because, to make matters worse, the group didn’t leave a tip.

Skeet makes it clear that he’s unwilling to host this group again. “I would thank you to never come back to my restaurant. Lily means a lot more to me than money. I also think you should assess the people you surround yourself with.”

The chef penned the letter shortly after the diners left. After sleeping on it, however, he decided that he was not going to refund their money and instead transferred it all to Lily.

Being in the restaurant industry is hard enough without recent challenges including the pandemic, staffing shortages, and supply chain issues. Skeet’s actions are a powerful reminder that the people in service positions are not deserving of the bad behavior that patrons, in positions of power, feel like they can inflict on them.

  

 

A quote ...

“Books are frozen voices, 

in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. 

The score is a way of transmitting the music to 

someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer’s head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and 

transforms the letters into living sounds. 

The reader is the musician of the book: 

each reader may read the same text, 

just as each violinist plays the same piece, 

but each interpretation is different.

 

Margaret Atwood

Throwback Thursday ...

 

Sensei Ota, Otis, Ferhan, Dalke, Kubota, Miyake, Blair.

Judges at Ota Sensei's outdoor tournament,

Little Tokyo on a very hot day, 1982.

 

 

 

 

A cute 2-minute video, charging Emu, here.

 

Just because ...

 

 

Chestnut-backed Quail-thrush

 

 

Smiles for Thursday ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

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