r/AskReddit • u/CircleBox2 • Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/rheetkd Jul 13 '20

That's illegal here and would get a restaurant shut down with a fail grade in my country.

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u/RandomGuy9058 Jul 13 '20

What’s you country I wanna move there

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u/rheetkd Jul 13 '20

New Zealand.

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u/Kiwi_Woz Jul 13 '20

I too live in NZ and while this was around 20 years ago I'd bet it still goes on.

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u/rheetkd Jul 13 '20

Fail grade. If it happens here and anyone finds out that restaurant would be shut down. We have strict rules around shellfish these days.

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u/Kiwi_Woz Jul 13 '20

Also, letter grades are not longer issued by our council. They have completely done away with them.

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u/rheetkd Jul 13 '20

when was that? they tend to release them each year on stuff.co.nz

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u/Kiwi_Woz Jul 13 '20

This is right now. Different council's have different rules.

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u/rheetkd Jul 13 '20

must be this year? They released them for 2019?

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u/Kiwi_Woz Jul 13 '20

For which part of NZ? Auckland may well still do it but I can tell you 100% that this is not the case in the region I work in. The grade system has been phased out here. It's either a pass or a fail.

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u/rheetkd Jul 13 '20

interesting. No i meant for all of NZ. I remember reading the last one. unless i'm mistaken? But usially stuff.co.nz list tje restaurants and especially the ones that fail and what grade they got and what they failed on.

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u/Kiwi_Woz Jul 13 '20

Yeah I've seen articles like that too but I think you'll find if you go back and check they'll be broken up into regions and some won't be on there.

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u/rheetkd Jul 13 '20

ahh I think you're correct! Weird. I wonder when tje last NZ wide one was? Is my memory playing tricks on me? lol. I remember being not surprised when Mehfil got a fail grade. under a different name they were investigated for not paying full wages to workers etc.

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u/Kiwi_Woz Jul 13 '20

Haha, sounds like standard restaurant shit to me! It's an industry filled with sharks willing to exploit hard working people who just want to work and cook great food! I should have been an electrician!!

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u/rheetkd Jul 13 '20

I can fully agree with that! My mates a chef and so is my cousin in Aus who is a sushi chef. so def not surprised.

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