Prosecution calls for $250,000 for zeffs

Looking at Lundy I wouldn’t be surprised if she had “hairs on her chest”.

Mr E, I suspect that with the unemployemnt rate as low as it is – you’d want to be pretty damn hungry to go eating pizza made by most of the remaining local jobless – trust me, I’ve tried to give some of those guys a job – but even standing still holding a ranging pole was beyond these guys.

Why the hell are we bringing these bastards out from The Phillipines anyway? I’m sure that no matter how badly they’re paid here, it’d still be better than living in The Phillipines!

Force some of our own longterm unemployed out to work for a change.

I think anyone will find if they know a chef/waiterperson/kitchen hand, they have many a 1st hand account to tell u over a beer ( your shout of course !! )

Fair enough, Danman, fair enough.

LG – your criticism is reasonable. I accept that you may not believe me, but I make my comments in good faith. Be aware that the cooking fraternity in Canberra (and in other places I’ve worked for that matter) is a particularly insular, gossipy and strongly networked group of misfits and manic-depressives. Some of the accounts I have heard are from cooks who worked there, rather than a cook’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s guitar teacher.

Shab – I am talking from the point of a frugal father to be point of view – a cheap joint to eat at with the wife and kids. I have never heard anything bad about zeffers from a customers point of view. Big staff turnover tho – but as a paying customer – not really an issue I am motivated with.

shab: I never worked for them – but I’ve heard stuff ….

Yeah, well, everyone knows that if you hear stuff then it must be true! Kind of like reading it on the internet. And if your mother’s friend’s daughter’s preschool teacher’s uncle told you stuff, then that’s the law.

Possibly all of the people in the catering industry could go out in support of the teachers tomorrow.

9% for everybody I say!!!

Their Sate chicken is pretty cool – Just finished one. Paid for with PRE-TAX dollars!!!

On the subject of exploitation, I know a person who left stopped being a chef, as the entire catering environment was exploitative.

Split shifts are simply an excuse for not paying you while you bum around in the mall, because it isn’t cost effective to go back home…

Danman – as an ex-chef, I didn’t think I’d see you go in to bat for the likes of Zeff’s.

Maybe I just ran with another crowd, but every cook, chef and underwater ceramic technician I’ve worked with has had or knows of some negative experience working for that mob.

I never worked for them – but I’ve heard stuff I shouldn’t put to publishing, because it could be construed as slander.

‘sides, the Tandoori pizza is arse.

While I’m on it, congratualtions to the good people at the Ottoman, Courgette and Sage for cracking it for a hat in the SMH Good Food Guide. It’s tough to get recognition from the Sydney food press in Canberra.

cheap because of exploitation.

Yeah will be bad to see zeffers go under for this. It really comes across a top quality yet cheap family restaraunt I reckon. I love their tadoori pizza as well – yet to replicate faithfully in a domestic environment.

yeah well, no matter how guilty they are, they still do the best tandoori chicken pizza around, and the service is fab (we don’t order anymore, walk in, sit down, they appear with a bottle of cab sav and say they pizza is in the oven).

I’m guessing that if this gets up, Zeff’s wont be selling the chaepest half-decent pizzas in town any more.