Chef Fired For Being Too Good

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Chef Fired for Attracting Too Many Diners
Thu Jan 29, 1:14 PM ET

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish chef said Thursday he was shocked to find out he will lose his job because his cooking is too good.

An engineering company in central Sweden said they won't renew chef Richard Norberg's contract because he attracts too many people to the company's cafeteria.

"Some feel that the staff has had to stand in line for too long and that they can't choose where they want to sit," a disappointed Norberg said Thursday.

The ABE engineering company in Oernskoeldsvik, 235 miles north of Stockholm, leased the cafeteria to Norberg six years ago. Since then, his traditional Swedish pancakes, pea soup and pork chops have attracted an ever growing stream of visitors.

"The number of guests has increased by many hundred per cent," ABE staff manager Curt Lundqvist said. "We simply do not have enough room."

Lundqvist said the eatery was now seating many more guests than stipulated in the lease contract.

The cafeteria's lunch crowd has tripled to 300 guests since it opened, due to the traditional Swedish cooking, the central location and the reasonable pricing, Norberg said.

He said he was shocked when he was notified that his contract wouldn't be renewed at the end of the year, although he had been aware of dissatisfaction about the growing number of guests.

"I thought this was something that we could solve," he said.

Lundqvist however, said the popularity had become too great for the engineering business. "We produce pipe-installation parts, we don't run things like this," said.
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Whoa... this is fucked up! Imagine getting fired cuz you're popular! Heh!
 
Geez.. fired!
*rolled my eyes up*
What their common sense where should have move another location and bit bigger size of room let guest coming in and loved their foods cooking..

would be awe for profit lot of money..
Doesn't make sense fired chef... Huh?
 
Fired? That business' LOSS and other business' GAIN. They will hire him right away after he got fired. Better cooking = More profit $$$.
 
Lasza said:
Fired? That business' LOSS and other business' GAIN. They will hire him right away after he got fired. Better cooking = More profit $$$.
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Extactly I agreed with you Lasza!
 
Not be too suprise about the owner might have claustrophobia.
 
That was the Stupidest Thing I have ever heard that a Chef being fired cuz he cooks real good? There goes the Business *bye bye* :lol:
 
hmm i gotta Hire him... pay him $100K per year!1!! i want profit if i set my own restruant business :P
 
DeafSCUBA98 said:
hmm i gotta Hire him... pay him $100K per year!1!! i want profit if i set my own restruant business :P
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Hey! I saw him first get back in line.. :rofl:
 
Cheri said:
That was the Stupidest Thing I have ever heard that a Chef being fired cuz he cooks real good? There goes the Business *bye bye* :lol:
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Maybe the business had no intention of being famous. There are some mom-&-pop places that prefer to keep their business simple and local. They don't try to make too much money, just enough to get them by. Maybe having this chef was too much for them and they couldn't control it so they fired him. I wouldn't blame them. I have a few friends who have their own businesses and they like to keep it simple too.
 
VamPyroX said:
Maybe the business had no intention of being famous. There are some mom-&-pop places that prefer to keep their business simple and local. They don't try to make too much money, just enough to get them by. Maybe having this chef was too much for them and they couldn't control it so they fired him. I wouldn't blame them. I have a few friends who have their own businesses and they like to keep it simple too.
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yeah i agree with you... but i think they shouldn't fire him.. i think they should just simple have him lay-off..

the word fired.. is a bad label.. bad repution(sp?)
 
VamPyroX said:
Maybe the business had no intention of being famous. There are some mom-&-pop places that prefer to keep their business simple and local. They don't try to make too much money, just enough to get them by. Maybe having this chef was too much for them and they couldn't control it so they fired him. I wouldn't blame them. I have a few friends who have their own businesses and they like to keep it simple too.
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Going by what the article stated, the business this chef was employed by was an engineering company specializing in pipe-installation parts. Apparently the owner wasn't interested in branching out into a new field of expertise, heh. I have no doubt the chef'll find other employment, that's the best kind of publicity one could hope for, eh?
 
Was that DirtyOldMan that they fired?... :eek:
 
I bet Jay Leno would love this story !
 
DeafSCUBA98 said:
yeah i agree with you... but i think they shouldn't fire him.. i think they should just simple have him lay-off..

the word fired.. is a bad label.. bad repution(sp?)
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Instead of firing him, they could have charged higher prices and then remodel their restaurant to handle to large crowd. It is not that hard to do when plenty of money comes rolling in!
 
I sense jealousy from this boss... :roll: you know how ppl are...always so jealous when others are popular and others are less popular, like the boss.
 
Boy! that is totally ridiculous!! at least that restaurant is making lots of dough!!! i always thought it is the other way round, that they get fired for being a bad cook?? :confused:
 
Steel said:
I sense jealousy from this boss... :roll: you know how ppl are...always so jealous when others are popular and others are less popular, like the boss.
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If that's the case, then the boss need to go to college and get a degree in Business Management! Everyone in their right mind would know not to be jealous of another co-worker or employee, but to reap the benefits of working with this talented person!

If that is what you are saying, the boss should have gotten more moolah if he charged higher prices. That will ward off cheap customers, welcome the high paying ones and keep the chef employed.
 
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