2 Filtered Reviews of Chia Vegan Restaurant

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Andorina

Points +418

Vegan
09 Dec 2017

NOT VEGAN

This restaurant is mostly vegan but it also serve vegetarian dishes with cheese, milk and animal products. It was really disappointing to see that when here it said it was vegan. They just do it for business, not for veganism. Also I could see that they treat staff really bad.
Updated from previous review on 2017-12-08

JorgeYabar

10 Dec 2017

Yesterday we had an incident in our place, it was the first day of work from a new waitress, everything seems to be normal, we love hire people from overseas and pitch in for their trip, it is the first time we deal with a situation like this, she asked if we could give her an extra plate of food for her partner, who did not work In our business, we accepted the offer in good faith, when the time came the boy arrived and took the menu and ordered a plate from the menu, the place was full of people, we kindly explained that every day food is prepared for the staff and we all eat the same even the owners, after the explained reaction of this guy was to attack the person in charge arguing that we paid him very little, which is not true, our salaries are based on competition and is above the minimum salary national territory, may be they believe it is a low wage because they come from Europe and i asume that wages are higher there, sadly he did not understood the cultural and economic difference and threaten us to make bad publicity of our business.
the reaction of the supervisor was to tell them to please leave but before that he paid the day of work to the girl.
This is our first incident with a worker, and it was not with the worker, it was with her boyfriend, and now I get the surprise that they made 2 comments with the minimum score, it is noted that the intention is to discredit the business, BOTH PEOPLE NEVER EVEN ATE AT THE PLACE.
This is a very new place, we have no more than five months in the market, and you understand that it is a great effort to maintain our reputation and it is not fair that a person with bad intentions and no ethics harm us.
Usually when you recieve a free meal you are greatfull, this crearly was not the case.

DemianNomad

Points +275

Vegan
10 Dec 2017

THIS PLACE ISN'T VEGAN

The story this person is telling is untruthful. First of all we did eat in the restaurant. Second this is the first time I hear someone calling it a free meal that you are supposed to work for 8 hours. I have received hundreds of free meals in my life when asking for leftovers but this certainly wasn't one of them. I have also made countless deals when I exchange work for food. This deal has been the worst. We both (me and my partner) wanted to work for food but they told they want just girls. This was already a bit weird to us but we agreed I'd work for 7 hours so we could both have a lunch and a dinner. This was our deal plus that I'd get 30 soles (around 7 euros) from my work day. I was first told I have to work for 7 hours but the employer suddenly changed it to 8 hours. We thought the deal was very bad but we were hungry and I agreed so I could feed us. The lunch was a small bowl of rice and veggies and we stayed hungry but we thought the dinner would be better. At some point I found out that the restaurant wasn't vegan even though they told so in Happy Cow. I told my college that I can't continue working after that day because there has been a misunderstanding and the only reason I'd work for them is because I thought it was a vegan restaurant. I told I don't feel good working in a place that sells animal products. The person refused to accept it. He didn't seem to understand how important it was to me.
It was a bit too much when they had told us we can have the dinner at 7 but my partner had to wait and wait and when he tried to ask when he can eat he got really rude responses but no answers. When they finally gave him the dinner it was like 3 dl of soup. We tried to explain that we deserve a real dinner from 8 hours of work but this was too much to the employer. He didn't listen us but just told us we are ungrateful and that we have to leave. I have never felt as exploited as this time.
I think I have my right to tell my experience about what really happened.
Updated from previous review on 2017-12-09

JorgeYabar

10 Dec 2017

Yesterday we had an incident in our place, it was the first day of work from a new waitress, everything seems to be normal, we love hire people from overseas and pitch in for their trip, it is the first time we deal with a situation like this, she asked if we could give her an extra plate of food for her partner, who did not work In our business, we accepted the offer in good faith, when the time came the boy arrived and took the menu and ordered a plate from the menu, the place was full of people, we kindly explained that every day food is prepared for the staff and we all eat the same even the owners, after the explained reaction of this guy was to attack the person in charge arguing that we paid him very little, which is not true, our salaries are based on competition and is above the minimum salary national territory, may be they believe it is a low wage because they come from Europe and i asume that wages are higher there, sadly he did not understood the cultural and economic difference and threaten us to make bad publicity of our business.
the reaction of the supervisor was to tell them to please leave but before that he paid the day of work to the girl.
This is our first incident with a worker, and it was not with the worker, it was with her boyfriend, and now I get the surprise that they made 2 comments with the minimum score, it is noted that the intention is to discredit the business, BOTH PEOPLE NEVER EVEN ATE AT THE PLACE.
This is a very new place, we have no more than five months in the market, and you understand that it is a great effort to maintain our reputation and it is not fair that a person with bad intentions and no ethics harm us.
Usually when you recieve a free meal you are greatfull, this crearly was not the case.