Former employees The Jane accuse Nick Bril of toxic leadership, top chef responds: « Passion should never be an excuse for disrespectful behavior »
Several former employees of two-star restaurant The Jane sketches The morning A nice image of Nick Bril. They accuse the top chef of toxic leadership anonymously. In a response to The morning Let glasses know that the testimonials about dealing with his staff touch him. « Not just as a chef. But as a person. »
The ball started rolling through an instagram post from former employee Joeri Timmermans two weeks ago. « As a chef with 22 years of experience, I was treated by Nick as a leather boy. Being shouted at 5 o’clock in the morning, it is not my thing to be read, » can be read.
It turns out not to be a single case. The morning searched and found five other former employees of Bril. They are absolutely no beautiful image of the star chef and witnesses in the newspaper under a pseudonym, their real names are at The morning-Draction known.
« I once saw him ram the induction fire broken with a pan. That screaming was the worst. He also did it as there were guests, » testifies a former kitchen employee in the newspaper. Glasses would also have been guilty of losing staff. And « he mainly picked out people who were not strong enough. »
He would also have crawled behind the wheel with drinks. With the well -known consequences: under the influence, he drove his intern Joe Claridge at the beginning of last year. The British auxiliary chef lost both lower legs. The public prosecutor wants to continue glasses for fleeing crime, guilty absenteeism, drunken feeding and unintentional blows and injuries.
« Shocked »
Glasses indicate in a response The morning To be « shocked ». De Zeeuw indicates that working in The Jane is « top sport ». « The kitchen is an intense place, driven by discipline, precision and passion. But passion should never be an excuse for disrespectful behavior. »
« If my drive has hurt some people, or if they have experienced busy in a way that was unhealthy, then I want to face it. Then I have to listen, » it is still.
The Jane in ‘t Groen Kwartier in Antwerp closed its doors in mid -March.
Read too. Nick Bril opens pop-up restaurant in Hotel van Marc Coucke and Bart Versluys in Knokke
Here is inserted content from a social media network that wants to write or read cookies. You have not given permission for this.
:format(webp)/s3/static.nrc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/18221607/data131056432-313125.jpg "Disagreement in coalition on defense spending: 700 million was released in the spring memorandum, but many billions are needed")
