MUNICH / BERLIN (Reuters) – When terminated Burger King franchisee Yi-Ko the first stores have closed. The reason is that the stores would no longer be supplied with goods, said Guido Zeitler, head of unit for the hospitality industry in the NGG, on Sunday, the dpa. So closed branches in Munich and media reports in Cologne or Fulda. The interim CEO of Yi-Ko, Dieter stub was not available for comment.
Yi Ko operates 89 branches so far with a total of 3,000 employees who fear for their jobs since then. Burger King & lt; BKW.NYS & gt; & Lt; BGK.FSE & gt; had quit mid-last week of fuss about lack of hygiene and poor working conditions, the contracts with the largest German licensee Yi Ko holding without notice. Upon termination of the stores had to change its name and were no longer supplied by Burger King.
In posting a branch in Munich, the provisional closure was also motivated by an injunction that Burger King had obtained against Yi-Ko. Thus may Yi-Ko the company logo of Burger King as well as product no longer use. Moreover, standing on the notice board with a view to closing. “We are confident that this is only a short time, in the ideal case of a few days, is”
A spokesman for Burger King had dpa said: “We have obtained a temporary injunction at the district court in Munich and do not see any reason not to enforce”. Yi-Ko had appealed against the order according to a report in the “Rheinische Post”. The court’s decision is expected this week.
NGG expert Zeitler said there was a chance that the stores may be continued under a new operator. He had already called: “We need clarity quickly, how to proceed with the individual restaurants.”
Burger King, however, does not expect a speedy solution to the dispute with Yi-Ko. “We can not promise that, and how quickly, there is a solution,” said Andreas Bork, the head of Germany Burger King, the “Welt am Sonntag”. While going currently working flat out, the restaurants affected 89 to convert it into a new ownership structure to secure as many of the 3,000 jobs at risk as possible. However, the situation is highly complex. “That depends largely on Yi-Ko from. We are just the franchisor. All leases run over Yi-Ko and the employees are employed there,” Bork said.
Bork raised in the newspaper interview serious allegations against Yi-Ko: “There was in the past few weeks repeated serious violations of labor regulations, and we can prove it.”. So are collectively agreed benefits such as holiday pay and allowances for restaurant manager not or has not been paid in full.
Meanwhile, announced at the TV station RTL, on Monday (24.11.) In his reportage magazine “Team Wallraff” the result of new research to show. RTL had reported irregularities at the end of April Yi-Ko. / Hoe / DP / he
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