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I am not The OOP, OOP is u/GameNerd93
My small town is fighting over Chinese food!
Originally posted to r/EntitledPeople
Thanks to u/theprismaprincess and u/Time_Excitement_668 for suggesting this BoRU
Original Post Aug 19, 2024
This is Entitled People on the large scale! And it’s too hilarious not to share. I live in a small town population 7000 roughly and everyone is currently divided over a Chinese restaurant. Its been in the local news and Australias national news that’s how crazy people are getting.
I’m going to try to keep this short. Back in May of this year a local Chinese restaurant owner informed the local club he was renting kitchen space from that he wanted to retire gave them his resignation stating his last operating day would be the end of June. Que the local Karens and Kevins in mass! One local who we will call Big Kevin teamed up with another local we will call Mega Karen and they decided they were going to protest against the closing and force the club to keep the restaurant open. This poor man has been running the restaurant for 30 years without break and just wanted to retire peacefully. But no. Mega Karen started a petition while Big Kevin organised a protest. Now our third major player in this we shall call the Wicked Witch. The Wicked Witch working in the shadows starts leaking to the local paper that said restaurant owner is being forced out by the club (false allegation). The club gives their first and only statement about the situation stating that the restaurant owner retired and even produced his retirement paperwork for proof. At this point the national news comes into it and does an interview with restaurant owner who states on the news he wants to retire! You would think that would be the end of it but no.
Mega Karen gets 1200 or so signatures on her petition which she hands to the club. The clubs lawyer calls it invalid due to over 900 of the signatures not being filled in properly (signature + printed name + club membership number or phone number needed by each person to make it valid) or same person signed multiple petition slots. So Mega Karen starts a new petition which only gets 74 signatures. Meanwhile Big Kevin organises a protest he doesn’t show up for nor does anyone else! The club then hosts a meeting for all club members, members of the general public and the clubs board to discuss what is going on but again for all the complaints no one shows up!
Now Mega Karen and Big Kevin are demanding that a new meeting be held, the clubs general manager be fired and the clubs board be disbaned and a new board elected. The Wicked Witch then once again goes to the newspaper with a statement from the restaurant owner, the restaurant has now been closed for over a month and states that now the club has renovated the restaurant and has plans to starts a new restaurant they (the old restaurant) would considered renting the space again. Before you question why the space wasn’t renovated before this point it was part of the Chinese Resturants agreement that they would maintain and renovated the space as they saw fit (as stated by the club in their public statement). And she tells the paper that the whole reason the Chinese restaurant left wasn’t because they wanted to retire but because their rent increased from the $285 a week they have paid for 28 years to $385 a week last year and then $485 a week this year for a restaurant space when other local restaurants are paying $2500 a week plus for the same or smaller places. So Big Kevin, Mega Karen and a ton of other locals where all shocked at the cost of rent which they are all now saying should have been kept at the $285 to encourage the restaurant to stay even though it meant likely closing the club since they were struggling to afford running costs. The club even broke down their running costs to show the members and locals how expensive it is to keep the place open but still not good enough.
I can’t with this town anymore.
RELEVANT COMMENTS
sesamesnapinhalf
So many people craving for a succulent Chinese meal, it seems.
OOP
There is a second chinese resturant in town which makes this even funnier.
OOP shares a link to the news report of the situation
OOP describing what the club is to non-Aussies
A club is basically a fancy establishment which usually has a few large rooms for events like funerals, birthday party’s, etc, a few bars for buying drinks, gambling area, and a resturant. It’s basically where you go for a formal night out. The club couldn’t do anything to keep him from leaving.
Update Sept 9, 2024
So our Big Kevin if you remember from the original post had organised a protest he didn’t show up to. Well Ladies, Gentlemen and Thems. He has now organised a meeting for October 31st for all paying members of the club. Taken directly from the posters around town and his Facebook post:
“This meeting is to discuss the removal of the President and Board of Directors, and elect an interim Board to move forward, with plans to reinstate Danny’s Kitchen to catering”
I can’t with these people honestly. When this meeting takes place the new restaurant will be open in the club. All cards on the table I do have a job in the new kitchen so I’ll be the first to admit I could be looking at this with bias. However, the owner of Danny’s did retire and I don’t think a vote over turns retirement. If they got enough votes then I suppose an offer could be made to him but he can’t be forced back.
I also found out the owner tried to train multiple people to take over but every time the same people complaining now put in complaints to the club about the quality of the food. No way to please these people honestly. The Clubs General Manager is hoping that once the new restaurant opens people will enjoy the food and move on from Dannys.
But for now I will update you again either on the night of the 31st or on the 1st November of what happens with this meeting.
RELEVANT COMMENTS
wombat74
Man, I had a read through your town’s “community news” FB page - people are seriously pissed at the closing of Danny’s. Accusations flying left right and centre. I’m surprised nobody’s called out Big Kevin for not showing up to his last protest.
OOP
Yeah I’ve noticed that. Danny’s was open for 30 years so a lot of the older community members who have come to expect his food as part of their weekly routines are the ones pissed off. Where as a lot of the younger ones around my age (31) I’ve spoken too are actually excited to try the new food and are ready for the change.
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theDagman
Maybe you should start a petition to have Big Kevin, Big Karen and the Wicked Witch all thrown out of the club for manufacturing all of this drama, and making a spectacle of the club in the national news.
OOP
I believe the club is looking at banning them and taking legal action at least that’s the word around town but no official statement has been made by the club.
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MatthewnPDX
The retired owner of the Chinese restaurant is not coming out of retirement to return to work. He and his wife likely worked hard for many years to provide for their family, and their kids may well be settled in professional careers that have nothing to do with restaurant work, maybe doctors, lawyer, pharmacists or teachers. Unless Big Kevin has enough political influence to get one of the former owner’s non-Australian relatives a permanent residency visa to work the restaurant, this is a non-starter.
OOP
Unfortunately for him his wife is the Wicked Witch but he is in the process of divorcing her and he plans to move back to Taiwan all his around grown with their own kids and didn’t want the restaurant.
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PinkMarmoset
This is so entertaining! Please keep updating as the story develops. I hope Danny moved very far away so he doesn’t have to deal with this daily. Poor man.
OOP
Last I spoke to him he was planning on moving home to Taiwan. Unfortunately he is married to Wicked Witch but he is filling for divorce and leaving her here.
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Dude married crazy and wants out.