This is the moment a young woman who enthusiastically applied for a job at a new restaurant with a gourmet menu is seen photographing the contents of their secret cookbook.
The video of the incident showing the smartly-dressed young woman using a mobile phone to photograph pages of recipes has caused intense debate after it was shared by the new restaurant in Huzhou, a prefecture-level city in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province.
The restaurant complained that they had only recently opened and had decided to employ a young woman after she had worked incredibly hard to impress chefs and been given a temporary position in the newly opened restaurant as a reward.
She was required to undergo a four-day probationary period, and managers were shocked when they checked the CCTV footage from 21st May and noticed that she had been brazenly photographing the secret recipes that they had spent years preparing for the gourmet restaurant’s launch.
They claimed that the young woman was probably going to sell them to a rival, destroying the strategy for success that they had hoped would catapult them to the top spot on the local gourmet scene.
However, netizens had mixed reactions. Some said she might just have wanted to study them, and others demanded to know what the evidence was that there was malicious intent involved.
At present, the police have summoned the employee and the case is under further investigation.
The store also stated that it would strengthen internal management and improve the confidentiality system to ensure that similar incidents will not happen again.
Online commentators like ‘User Yephhr’ said: “It is called a secret recipe that ordinary workers can see. It’s just hype from the restaurant.”
And user ‘April’ said: “This is to sell the recipe! Otherwise, who would deliberately take this photo?”
While the user ‘In River Island’ said: “If you can’t manage yourself, don’t blame others for taking pictures.”
