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Le Gourmand
Le Gourmand has re-opened its flagship location near Richmond and Spadina after shuttering its doors in the wake of some financial problems.
A pigeon waiting for food scraps, Nathan Phillips Square.
By Blaine Kendall.
Friday, May 24, 2013
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Smita, can I reserve a date with you to this lovely pastry shop when I'm back? I'll need you to peel me away from the display or else i'm sure I'll drool over everything.
thx for the review. We have not sold La Paloma Gelato for the past 2 years. La Paloma was having some partnership issues that was making it difficult for us to do business together. Our Gelato is from Gelato Fresco. Their Gelato is very good and reputable, they do not use artificial flavours so I am having trouble understanding why you would have the impression that they were. The cookies you are reffering to are Nookie Cookies not to be confused with Nocci (walnut cookies). Thx again, its nice to hear good things about our hard work. Cheers
Just a heads up.
i also got verbally attacked to the point where the police had to be called.
milton will probably attack me yet again here, but i am only telling the truth and i have witnesses and a police report to back it up.
thank you.
Either the complaints are correct, in which case Milton's a jerk that doesn't deserve my money.
Or the complaints are lies, and Milton's reply is so ridiculous that he doesn't deserve my money.
His insults, grammar, and admittedly illegal actions (withholding pay????) do sound like a nightmare boss, and this is SOLELY FROM HIS OWN POST!
"25K out of pocket..." Of course it's out of pocket - you're the owner! It's all out of pocket for THE OWNER...
I'll be heading elsewhere.
Milton, take a class somewhere on employee/employer relations, and maybe anger management to boot... "
I dont own the space. Its leased. When my lease is up in 4 years i have no use for an industrial HVAC system that the landlord should have put in. I have very happy employees that have been with me for a very long time. I didnt get to where i am by treating my staff like crap. So give your head a shake and think twice before reading certain posts.
Btw, insulting potential customers and telling them to "give their head a shake" is AWESOME business rhetoric. And(because you obviously need to read the content of these posts more closely) Matt was criticizing YOUR post as he stated with the capitalized text that reads: "and this is SOLELY FROM HIS OWN POST!"
Milton, the more you post the bigger an asshole you appear to be. Your angry little self is just going to have to deal with the fact that not everyone agrees with your seemingly illegal business practices.
My sugegstion: maybe do some yoga to relax - I can envision you exploding a vein in your forehead while in a vicious, red face inducing, rage.
I was pretty equal in my post. I took routes showing the other posters as being correct, and as being incorrect.
Most of the information I took was actually from your own posts, not from the others, as one bad experience can snowball into a dozen. At various times, I've been a minimum-wage employee, and also had staff of my own, so I understand both sides of the dynamic.
Your own responses show a very negative persona, implying that the complaints may not be far off.
As for your HVAC issue, that is between yourself and your landlord. Not me, not your employees, strictly the signatures on your contract. If they should have put it in, it should be in the contract, and you can pursue it legally. I digress, those are solely your concerns.
Smita - The reason that the police have not done anything to intervene such an 'abusive' employer is a logical one. The claims are not valid. Le Gourmand Bloor would not exist because the owner would be tied up in legal battles up to his ears and a business licence would not have been issued. I would suggest that we put the baby to bed.
Also nobody named Courtney has ever worked for Le Gourmand, but maybe that's an alias.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
What positions do the female staff hold? Is there a bias regarding the type of females Milton and his management hire based on their physicality? There are all sorts of reasons people won't press charges against abusers. Fear of safety, financial reasons, and simply because they are treated like they are not worthy of anything more, all serve as explanations. The same can be said about people hired by verbally and mentally abusive employers. Your simple black and white reasoning is inadequate and does a dis-service to people who are brave enough to make actual claims against such employers.
The Last Dinosaur, if Milton is your role model, I suggest you find a new one. Perhaps one that respects both his employees and potential clients on the same level as anything "out of pocket."
Milton, the fact that you had enough balls to come and attack former employees months (PERSONAL attacks, no less), maybe years, after it happened is a little bit pathetic, especially for a grown man.
The fact that a girl just "randomly blew up at you" I'm sure had something to do with your place of business and wasn't just a personal problem.
And you can't press charges for something someone writes on the internet. If you could, half the world would be in jail.
Maybe you should calm down and realize you're an asshole and just deal with it.
For the kind of shop that it is, I'm always surprised by how dirty it gets, esp on the weekends. Dirty plates and cups aren't cleaned up quickly. Customers move them to another table, which quickly turns into a faux garbage.
Tables should be cleaned right after a customer leaves, not left for a few hours.
That also goes without saying... an attitude adjustment!~
It seems to me that this same former employee is asking her equally unstable friends to join in the unmerited attack against her former boss.
You all need to grow up.
While the employee might have been a little crazycakes depending on who you listen to, I think Milton's post has done all the damage. I don't think I'll be going back there anymore. What a selfish idiot. Shit happens, but clearly he didn't do his best to deal with it.
Besides, the cookies really aren't that great. They're always dry and overcooked nowadays, and the recipes aren't that spectacular. Homemade is so much better! I dislike paying $3 for a stupid cookie.