My Ex-Temporary Cook Cook

myversa

As some of you might aware, my restaurant closed down (few weeks ago) until my partner-cook came back.

The reason for closing the restaurant is because of malpractice my Ex-Temporary Cook, let's call him Mr. J.

He kept on using un-safe and un-clean method to cook food and we gave him several warning not to do it again but he would not learn to us.

He thought he was the big-time cook and all the kitchen workers including me, the boss, should listen to him.  He used the way restaurant used to cook.  I told him we were just small food court stall and he should care about customers.

Just few days ago, I talked to Public Market management and he told me that he even saw that cook picked up the noodle from the ground and put into the fry pan.  I never saw people so disgusting.

I am just wondering what I can do so he would not "poison" others?

myversa

Yes I want to know too. So is your current restaurant closed? Or was that old news before you have the current food court location?
布小熊 發表於 2009-7-28 10:32

The cook started the restaurant (3 years ago)
-> I purchased some shares (2 years ago)
-> The cook decided to take vacation and just hired Mr. J as substitute (3 or 4 months ago)
-> It started okay and he did everything accordingly.
-> Just recently we discovered that he used unsafe way to cook food.
-> We told him not to do it but he would not listen and said big restaurant always uses this way to cook food.
-> We even had big heated argument in Public Market.
-> He continued to act as big boss and did that way. (maybe he thought my wife and I are younger and no experience)
-> We even asked our partner-cook to tell him.
-> We fired him and closed down the business.

We did not want people to eat unsafe food and unclean food so we closed down the restaurant.

myversa

4# daimo

My partner's cooking way:
1.  Cook small portion of dishes each time.  

2. Will cook more when the dish runs out and put into new tray.

3.  Try not to have overnight food especially vegetable.  We always threw away vegetable at end of the day.  That's why at end of the day, our dish tray does not look too impressive.

Mr. J's cooking:
1.  Cook big portion of dishes and store in the fridge.  Every time, taking out a bucket and put into microwave and heat it for 20 minutes.  

2.  If a tray has less than 1/4 food left, he would just pour the new food into the same tray.

3.  He always left big portion of food overnight.  He would mix the over-night food with fridge food and put into microwave.  He even put in curry vegetable.  No one in their right mind would serve curry vegetable over night.

He claimed these are big restaurant ways.

myversa

Toppy, at least he cannot do that in my restaurant.

myversa

12# zoids

I already FIRED him and closed my restaurant down.  I would not serve this kind of food to customer.  He already left.  Before I was proud to say I took restaurant food for my lunch every day.  If I do not dare to eat it, I would not want to serve it to the customer.

The last I heard, someone from my restaurant saw him wearing cook uniform at Aberdeen Center food court.

I created this thread to alert restaurant owner about this guy.  To tell you the truth, someone even vomited after eating his food.

myversa

14# tofu

Speaking of my partner, he would not want to come back anytime soon.  I asked him to come back to settle down things first but he refused.  What kind of person was that.  In his mind, everything was about him.

Anyway, it's another long story.  

World of Advice, if you want to open a business with someone else, choose someone more responsible and have more business sense and someone would respect you and listen to you.

myversa

16# rockypath

I agreed with you.  Some cook just would not listen to others.  He came to my restaurant and at least he should follow our rules.

Guess what?  I only asked him two things, one: do not fight with other employees and two do not put food into microwave and he told me "NO, he cannot do that."

He just wanted to be lazy.  So hopefully the new cook your friend's restaurant hired does not have the name started with "J".  If it is, pm me, I will pm you the name.  Do not hire this guy because his way of cooking will make people sick.

myversa

18# shutterbug

At least all I ask is to have some business sense and ask me before he does anything..

He decided to go back to Malaysia and bought the tickets already and my wife and I were the last to know.  He went back to Malaysia because his friend was going back....

myversa

21# shutterbug

Yes he ate the food from my restaurant.  However, he did not report to VCH.

I asked Mr. J to change his way of cooking one last time but he still would not listen.  I decided to fire him and closed the restaurant until my partner comes back.

We can open anytime we want but we do not have any Malaysian cook so what's the point to open it.  Currently we still needed to pay rent and stuff while we have no income from the restaurant.  We can still open with Mr. J as the cook but I just do not want the same happens again.  If it does, we might be reported to VCH this time.

I know if I created this thread, it might sound bad to my restaurant but I wanted to warn others about this person.

myversa

27# eslmath

Sorry you are wrong again.  He is waiting for his PR to issue.  He is actually coming to Canada.

It feels good to see how childish you are to assume things when it is not true.