Nusret Gökçe, a Turkish cook and butcher became famous on the Internet a few
years ago with shots of him flamboyantly sprinkling salt on meat going viral. Heacquired the nickname of Salt Bae. Cashing in on the credulity and flauntingopulence of the upper classes, he opened a posh restaurant in Knightsbridge,where he charges £100 for a burger and £630 for a steak, £850 if the steak iswrapped in gold leaf! A Coke is £9, a Red Bull £11, whilst a single onion flowercosts £18 and corn on the cob £12.This is in a borough - Kensington and Chelsea -where there are 20 food banks. Punters at the restaurant can end up forking out£30,000 for a meal. Despite all of this, the restaurant is fully booked for weeks.Not far away, at local charity the SPACE, there are long queues for the food bankthere. Reality TV star Gemma Collins, felt guilty about the £1,450 she spent on ameal with her boyfriend at Salt Bae's, thinking she could remove that guilt bydonating bags of her bras to charity!Salt Bae is not content with just ripping off the rich. He does the same with hisworkers. At the Manhattan branch in the USA, he didn't tell his waiters about theamount of tips they should have received. He pooled the gratuities, and took 3%off to put into his own pocket. When waiters began to investigate, he fired them.Now, after a court case, he had to fork out $230,000 to four waiters. He was alsoforced to post up a notice about workers' rights in his restaurant.https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2021/10/30/steak-restaurant-highlights-the-obscenity-of-capitalism/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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