A chef who boasted about coaching former MasterChef decide George Calombaris now has a fried rooster restaurant in liquidation.
Eric Tay’s Hillbilly’s Crispy Hen enterprise was positioned into liquidation, simply 4 years after he opened the restaurant in Baulkham Hills in Sydney’s north-west.
‘Hillbilly’s will probably be closed till additional discover,’ it advised its followers on Instagram and Facebook on November 2.
The enterprise had an Instagram web page with 2,000 followers, which featured movies of younger ladies reviewing a tower rooster burger.
Hillbilly’s menu included burgers with three beef patties and southern fried rooster burgers with maple bacon and blue cheese.
Mr Tay, who ran and operated the enterprise together with his spouse, went below after All Enterprise Accounting Options obtained a courtroom order to have Hillbilly’s Crispy Hen instantly positioned into liquidation.
Troy Graham, from Taylor Insolvency, stated a months-long dispute over a invoice of about $5,000 for monetary recommendation had led to a authorized course of that was now set to value near $8,000.
‘It appears as if the corporate’s gone into liquidation over a really minor debt,’ he advised Each day Mail Australia.
‘The price of winding the corporate up seems to be greater than the principal debt that was owed to the creditor.
‘I can solely see the rationale for this firm going into liquidation, as the results of a dispute with a creditor who has unpaid payments.
‘The director didn’t have the monetary means to have the ability to fund a a defence in courtroom, it’s actually unhappy.’
Mr Graham stated the corporate, formally often called Hillbilly’s Fried Hen Pty Ltd, didn’t owe any hire or employees wages, primarily based on an early analysis.
Mr Tay’s LinkedIn profile boasted that he educated Calombaris in the course of the late Nineties, when he was an apprentice on the Sofitel in Melbourne, the place the longer term MasterChef decide met fellow future TV chef Gary Mehigan.
‘I’m an entrepreneur I began out within the hospitality business as a professional chef, working in Scotland, New Zealand, Channel Islands UK, Melbourne and Sydney Australia,’ Mr Tay stated.
‘I used to be a senior chef above George Calombaris on the Sofitel in Melbourne.’
Hillbilly’s Crispy Hen opened in November 2019, 4 months after Calombaris’s MAdE Institution again paid $7.8million in wages and superannuation entitlements after admitting to underpaying 515 current and former employees.
A chef who educated disgraced MasterChef decide George Calombaris now has a fried rooster restaurant in liquidation
This coated workers on the Press Membership, Gazi and three Hellenic Republic eating places.
The scandal noticed Community Ten dump Calombaris from the upcoming 2020 season, together with fellow judges Mehigan and Matt Preston, on the time admitting the cooks have been unhappy with the pay supply.
Calombaris continues to be within the restaurant enterprise having in April this yr opened a brand new Greek-Australian restaurant The Hellenic Home Mission at Highett, within the Melbourne’s south-east.
Enterprise associate Philipe Hatzikourtis is placing up the financing whereas native builder Ivo Baldari did the design.
The trio have been this yr additionally contemplating a strip of land at Rye within the Mornington Peninsula.
Mr Tay had beforehand owned a restaurant at Oberon the New South Wales central west, referred to as Tay’s Epicurean earlier than working three meals vans serving clients at Bella Visa and Oran Park in Sydney’s north-west and outer south-west.
The enterprise had an Instagram web page with 2,000 followers, which featured movies of younger ladies reviewing a tower rooster burger
Hillbilly’s Crispy Fried Hen opened in November 2019, 4 months after Calombaris’s MAdE Institution again paid $7.8million in wages and superannuation entitlements after admitting to underpaying greater than 500 current and former employees
Mr Tay’s Hillbilly’s Fried Hen firm has been positioned into liquidation, simply 4 years after Hillbilly’s Crispy Hen opened in Baulkham Hills
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