Fire and Ice opens

Fire and Ice — one of the most popular restaurants in Kathmandu — opened today after six weeks of closure due to workers' dispute.
During a staff meeting on August 10 almost all the staff on duty led by five workers walked off the job without any warning protesting the appointment of the evening manager by the management. There were still customers waiting to be served and they could not finish their meal. The situation escalated when the restaurant management was almost ready to go home at around l0 pm when one worker attacked my HHR manager," according to Annamaria Forgione, managing director of Fire and Ice Fire that first opened its doors in January 1995. "The others joined in, two people got hurt. It is almost impossible to continue to run the restaurant with the pressure of constant bullying."
The militant trade unionism supported by political parties and weak law and order situation hurt the investors' confidence recently.
The management sought government help in solving the dispute to reopen the restaurant. The restaurant is providing employment for 71 staff in total including cooks, waiters, barmen, cleaners, guards, store keepers, office employees, and HHR manager.