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I have had it with husband's difficult child brother !
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 370065" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I watched an episode of Kitchen Nightmares (or whatever it's called) and Gordon Ramsay was somewhere up in the frozen north trying to rescue a seafood restaurant that was right on the waters edge (or ice - it WAS winter) and serving bad frozen food. Three friends had gone into partnership, hired the "I've had 40 years experience in the industry!" father of one of them, paying the old guy $100,000 to keep the kitchen working, and it was a disaster. So they hired a new head chef, moved the old guy to front of house as manager and it was still a mess, because the old guy would socialise with the customers and drink ouzo all night, but not do anything functional. He would allow no changed, he ordered bulk supplies of poor quality ingredients (such as tins of fake frozen crab) and not allow the head chef to change the menu. The head chef had no authority, so the kitchen staff disrespected him and wouldn't work well for him. The old guy was drawing huge pay while the partners were not only not getting paid, they were putting in more of their own money. And nobody could say who was responsible for what.</p><p></p><p>I really thought this one would fail. But it didn't. However, the first thing that had to happen, was Dad had to take a 50% cut in pay and also in duties. Later the show said they finally fired him - from what I saw, the guy just wanted the fun and really couldn't handle the responsibility; possibly early Alzheimer's. Sad.</p><p></p><p>But whatever the reason, if you can't sideline this guy or buy him out, you need to leave. If he's in sufficient control to get Princess brought in on staff, then you have too little control and you will lose money on this. And friends. And good relationship with family.</p><p></p><p>Get out now, before you lose more.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 370065, member: 1991"] I watched an episode of Kitchen Nightmares (or whatever it's called) and Gordon Ramsay was somewhere up in the frozen north trying to rescue a seafood restaurant that was right on the waters edge (or ice - it WAS winter) and serving bad frozen food. Three friends had gone into partnership, hired the "I've had 40 years experience in the industry!" father of one of them, paying the old guy $100,000 to keep the kitchen working, and it was a disaster. So they hired a new head chef, moved the old guy to front of house as manager and it was still a mess, because the old guy would socialise with the customers and drink ouzo all night, but not do anything functional. He would allow no changed, he ordered bulk supplies of poor quality ingredients (such as tins of fake frozen crab) and not allow the head chef to change the menu. The head chef had no authority, so the kitchen staff disrespected him and wouldn't work well for him. The old guy was drawing huge pay while the partners were not only not getting paid, they were putting in more of their own money. And nobody could say who was responsible for what. I really thought this one would fail. But it didn't. However, the first thing that had to happen, was Dad had to take a 50% cut in pay and also in duties. Later the show said they finally fired him - from what I saw, the guy just wanted the fun and really couldn't handle the responsibility; possibly early Alzheimer's. Sad. But whatever the reason, if you can't sideline this guy or buy him out, you need to leave. If he's in sufficient control to get Princess brought in on staff, then you have too little control and you will lose money on this. And friends. And good relationship with family. Get out now, before you lose more. Marg [/QUOTE]
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