What
should entrepreneur do during the strike of coronavirus attack?
I
love to watch cooking show, such as “Master Chief” and “Hell Kitchen”. Gordon
Ramsay is undoubtedly my favorite celebrity chief. “It is fxxking raw!”, I was
never believed myself will be relief hearing F word before.
On
March 19, 2020, Gordon Ramsay post a letter on Instagram, talk about the crisis
of coronavirus, and unfortunately decide to close all his restaurant in London,
everyone keep safe and people can come through this. Letter sounds lovely, but
what he wasn’t say is there is 12 restaurant in London under Gordon’s name and
over 500 employee, their contract will be abort after April 17, and there is no
guarantee that employee can go back to work after the crisis.
I
know this is a difficult decision for Gordon. It is a hard for most business
this year except company like Zoom, Amazon. I would not say his decision is
wrong, but lack of humanity. Because of coronavirus and social distance, there
is no revenue from restaurant, and no money to pay wages. Gordon just decide to
fire everyone with prepaid wage one month. People tweets a post about another Asian
chief Andrew Wong ( One Michelin star) who also closed his restaurant but he
did not fire his employee, and provide 50-100 cuisine box for home isolation
people, and it is free. As an adult, we know this world is complex and
ruthless, we do not know if Andre Wong’s decision will harm himself after a
while, make him and his company getting worse, even worst consequence.
According
to an employee from Gordon’s restaurant, lots of people deicide not to go back to
their position after the coronavirus crisis, because Gordon Ramsay’s act is
really discouraging.
After seeing
all the event, I would say I might do something differently. There is lots of ways
to try for saving the company before this extremely action. Layoffs like this
might help the company to survive for the crisis, but it will harm the future
of the company. It is unacceptable for the partners and employees.
