Chef sacked over ‘quality of sandwich made for owner’

A chef was sacked from a four-star hotel over the quality of a sandwich he prepared for one of the hotel’s owners and having chicken supremes at the wrong temperature on the same day.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ordered the Ashdown Park Hotel Ltd to pay Mauro Panico €14,600 after finding that he was unfairly dismissed.

The four-star hotel in Gorey, Co Wexford is owned by builders and brothers, Thomas and Patrick Redmond where the most recent accounts for 2013 show that the business was being supported by directors’ loans to the tune of more than €2.2m.