Rewarding your long-time staff with Rolex

[JSolution]

Good gesture. Always look after the people around you because if you don’t,
In my experience, they will F you over.

[ronricks]

Restaurant business is not easy. My family was in it for decades. Respect to you for showing such devotion to your longtime employees and good luck the rest of the year hopefully the worst is behind us for the restaurant/hospitality industry.

[AK797]

Well done Andreas, that's a class move and very well done for staying alive during these times, I was just updating a thread about a fave restaurant of mine, the 2 star Ledbury in London which sadly has announced it is to be shutting down, sad times.

https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=612233

[Oldfellow]

Great story, and a very fine gesture.
Best wishes for further success with your restaurant and the friendship with your chefs.
Very nice pic of the three of you and the watches.

[WestCoastS]

Great story! More bosses should be like you

[sgwatchguy]

Lovely heartwarming story, kudos OP. You’re an inspiration

[JSCP]

Great friendships and success = Rolex

[RoscoPico]

Originally Posted by bayerische

Hi guys,

I'm been absent for awhile. Partly because of all the negative s**t with a certain virus and partly because I'm been extremely busy.

But anyway, I just wanted to share a bit.

As many of you know I'm in the restaurant business.

Back in 2017 my head chef had been onboard for 10 years. I wanted to celebrate this and the great work he had put in, and he really is a huge part of our (my) success. Much more so than his salary. Long story short I bought him a No-Date Sub. He still wears his Sub daily, and truly treasures it. I'm glad, as he and I have become lifetime friends, and I trust this man with my life.

My head chef's childhood friend came onboard a few years later, and he is equally solid in every way. Awesome personality with a great sense of humour (he should really be doing stand-up!) and a soldier in the kitchen.

These two gentlemen are my Chef and Sous-Chef. Superb blokes in every way.

Today was my Sous-Chefs 10 year anniversary, and we somewhat agreed earlier that the watch for him was an Explorer 2, black dial.

I've never been happier to buy a Rolex for someone else than today! The virus is pretty much over, my restaurant is open again and doing great! We're working hard with some restrictions still, but we are (for the moment at least) doing better than before the restrictions.

Long story... But I just wanted to share some of the joy with getting a real hard-working man his Rolex.

Group shot below of Jani's 14060 (Chef) My 1680 Red Sub and Sami's 16570 (Sous-chef).

that's awesome. great boss !!

[MrGoat]

Originally Posted by Robbmill

What restaurant? What city? It would be hard not to support you with that kind of allegiance to your employees!

This!! Please say somewhere within 2 hrs of Anna Maria Island.

[Jamie1111]

nice

[THC]

Wow Andreas.. Boss of the year kudos to you, sir.. best wishes to your on going biz

[Pw92676]

This is a fantastic story. Love reading stuff like this.

[DG123]

Originally Posted by bayerische

It really is. We are all like a big family. I'm not saying there's never any problems (I've got 30 employees), but I do try and work around problems. We're all different. Most staff work for a couple of years (summer jobs etc while studying) But the kitchen stays pretty much the same. Heck, we where all almost kids when we started this!

If you don't mind, please post about what may be the restaurant's special dishes

[Spectre38]

Fantastic way to show your people that they mean something to you. I work for a large corporation and have for the last 27 years. They used to appreciate their people but in the last 10 years or so, we have been treated more as liabilities than assets. It's good to see that there is appreciation on the side of management somewhere.

[NachoNeal]

I was totally thinking of doing the same for one of my employees on our 20th year together, but ended up just giving her a monetary bonus. A rolex seems so much more special.

[Brew]

Very cool. Continued success!

[Judge]

You are a generous soul.

Good on you and congratulations on the "teams" success!

[fskywalker]

Cool, congrats!!!!

[Bladeshot]

Such a wonderful story. You are clearly an amazing person who values others; and those are great memories and celebration pieces! My compliments; and my best to you and yours, and your staff. Cheers! So glad to see positive happenings. someday, I would like to visit your restaurant!

[10klakes]

That is super cool, nice to read something positive like this. Thanks for sharing-

[Bagman]

First class! Wish you the best

[Joearch]

Nice way to say thanks

[bayerische]

Originally Posted by eman1200

let me be clear, I think that's pretty awesome! just a question though, do they like watches or is there any chance they'd have preferred the extra cash, maybe a bonus or a raise in pay? either way, very nice gesture!

They had the option to choose cash. I'm glad with their choices.

[42itus]

Originally Posted by bayerische

They had the option to choose cash. I'm glad with their choices.

You guys are lucky to have each other!


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[Gwai]

Originally Posted by Oscar2010

I have been in the F&B Industry (on multiple Continents) for +30 years and have never heard of anything like this. You Sir, are a Rockstar.

Great comment! Andreas, too bad I'm not going to make it to Finland anytime soon.

Cheers
Marc

[Number3]

Really classy gesture and well deserved by the sound of it. Your restaurant looks fantastic Andreas - I wish you guys well in these difficult times.

[Rori]

Originally Posted by bayerische

Hi guys,

I'm been absent for awhile. Partly because of all the negative s**t with a certain virus and partly because I'm been extremely busy.

But anyway, I just wanted to share a bit.

As many of you know I'm in the restaurant business.

Back in 2017 my head chef had been onboard for 10 years. I wanted to celebrate this and the great work he had put in, and he really is a huge part of our (my) success. Much more so than his salary. Long story short I bought him a No-Date Sub. He still wears his Sub daily, and truly treasures it. I'm glad, as he and I have become lifetime friends, and I trust this man with my life.

My head chef's childhood friend came onboard a few years later, and he is equally solid in every way. Awesome personality with a great sense of humour (he should really be doing stand-up!) and a soldier in the kitchen.

These two gentlemen are my Chef and Sous-Chef. Superb blokes in every way.

Today was my Sous-Chefs 10 year anniversary, and we somewhat agreed earlier that the watch for him was an Explorer 2, black dial.

I've never been happier to buy a Rolex for someone else than today! The virus is pretty much over, my restaurant is open again and doing great! We're working hard with some restrictions still, but we are (for the moment at least) doing better than before the restrictions.

Long story... But I just wanted to share some of the joy with getting a real hard-working man his Rolex.

Group shot below of Jani's 14060 (Chef) My 1680 Red Sub and Sami's 16570 (Sous-chef).

You’re the man.
I know how it feels when you buy something so special to a special person. I enjoy that moment more than when I buy something for myself.


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[eman1200]

Originally Posted by bayerische

They had the option to choose cash. I'm glad with their choices.

Wow, very cool!

[joli160]

That is really a great gesture you made. Much respect to you.
It is very hard to find and especially keep good people around.

I am a loyal employee but if the company I work for did anything like that I would never ever leave.

[travisb]

This is great Andreas!
Thanks for sharing it.