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By Kathi O Shea April 29, 2021 7:33 am KGMI SEATTLE, Wash. A national news story paints an unflattering picture of working conditions at one of our region’s most renowned restaurants. It comes after The Willows paid $600,000 in March to settle a class action lawsuit over wage theft and other labor issues. The New York Times says it’s interviewed several dozen former employees of the Lummi Island restaurant and inn who describe a toxic workplace. Some accuse head chef Blaine Wetzel of physical intimidation and of using racist, sexist and homophobic slurs. Female workers say sexual harassment by male kitchen workers was largely ignored. ....
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April 27, 2021Updated 11:38 a.m. ET The chef Blaine Wetzel first came to Lummi, a tiny island in the San Juan archipelago of Washington State, in 2010. At age 24, he was fresh off a two-year stint at the vaunted Copenhagen restaurant Noma. He could have found a job in any kitchen in the world. Instead, heâd answered an ad on Craigslist, posted by a chicken farmer who owned a century-old inn on Lummi Island, 100 miles north of Seattle and reachable only by ferry. Sight unseen, Mr. Wetzel had fallen for the islandâs ravishing isolation â fewer than 1,000 people live there full-time â and its unspoiled forests, farms and fisheries. ....
Willows Inn [Official Photo] New York Times expose, former employees from Lummi Island’s critically acclaimed Willows Inn accuse the restaurant of being, in short, a nightmare work environment. Among some of the most troubling claims in the article are that chef-owner Blaine Wetzel and the restaurant’s manager Reid Johnson oversaw a pattern of sexism, sexual harassment, and racist bullying at the Willows Inn, and that staff members allegedly preyed on teenaged girls from the island. The piece also claims that the carefully cultivated image of local sourcing was false, with items purchased at grocery stores passed off as island-grown ingredients. ....