In Seattle, HoneyHole is a sandwich heaven and a touchstone on Capitol Hill. Employees say it used to be hard to get a job there because no one wanted to leave. But last week, that image went kablam.
On Sunday May 21, a former employee blasted off a scathing email to the company’s marketing list with the subject-line “HoneyHole Harasses Employees.” The message accused the company of selling moldy and expired food and described a restaurant that treated employees as disposable.
The HoneyHole owners deny treating their employees unfairly or serving anything but fresh and safe food, and they’ve passed recent health inspections.
Co-owner Patrick Rye said we should talk to employees for the real story.
“I encourage you to talk to people who are currently working there,” he said.
The Stranger talked to 17 current and former employees of the Capitol Hill sandwich institution. Several requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. While some workers claim they saw poor food-handling and others outright denied the food was unsafe, all but one claimed co-owner Kristin Rye has made HoneyHole a HoneyHell.
Current and former workers accused Rye of yelling at and mocking employees in front of other staff, cutting hours for employees who called out sick, and ignoring and dodging employees who called about missing wages, including those who filed complaints to the Washington Department of Labor and Industries. Queer employees say the restaurant enabled a former manager to repeatedly...
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