無端端遊車河

As I stepped out of the MTR heading home tonight, I received a call from my restaurant.  Some officers came and looked for the licensee, who is me.  And I am "supposed" to be in the restaurant "all of the time".  So I rushed to take a taxi back to the restaurant.

Sometimes, I find some regulations really silly.  This regulation itself actually has no problem.  I am the licensee, I am supposed to be in the restaurant during peak hours to make sure everything is in order and nothing illegal is happening in the restaurant.  However, the overall process just doesn't seem practical to me.

I guess the regulation was made when most owners operated their own restaurants.  So, they would be in their restaurants most of the time.  Now that there are more and more restaurant chains.  It's impossible for the owners to appear in their restaurant most of the time.  Some people would delegate this to the restaurant manager.  This is a good idea.  However, we cannot guarantee their stay in the company.  The transfer of the license may take more than a month.  And the restaurant cannot live without it.

Therefore, chain operators will use the owners, directors, senior managers, to hold the license.  But then, they won't be in the particular restaurant all the time.

5 minutes before I reached the restaurant, the restaurant called me and said that the officers had left.  And they put an absent on my record.  Sigh... 

So I told the driver to take me back home.  There is only one happy person in this story.  The taxi driver.  $112, I paid.  And for me, 無端端遊車河.

~ Lindberg