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nemisis wrote:Haven't been to a kfc in a bit but don't they have a dedicated cashier and a screen by the food pack area which shows their box staff what's been ordered?. Where you going that have cashier packing as well? Then again alluh fellas does look to go to the nastiest places on a norm....sMASH wrote:the kfc worker that handles the money handles the fries and meat..
most doubles people have a separate person to handle the food, and the person handlng the money might hand u the bag.
Why us and not KFC and the others?
Sauce Doubles owner angry over shutdown action...
Camille Hunte
POLICE Commissioner Gary Griffith says the decision to shut down D’Original Sauce Doubles in Curepe yesterday was done in keeping with the policies of the Government.
Griffith spoke to the Sunday Express after police moved in and ordered D’Original Sauce Doubles branch owner, Kelly Hosein-Richards, to close up shop.
Hosein-Richards said she is now contemplating legal action against the Government.
Government has ordered all non-essential businesses closed and non-essential workers to stay at home in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Restaurants and places that provide food are allowed to open for business, once they provide delivery or curbside pick-up services and they do not allow people to congregate.
Hosein-Richards told the Sunday Express she opened her business yesterday, following all the guidelines from health authorities.
She said her business was not like other doubles vendors who sell from a stall or tent on the street and is at a fixed and enclosed location, similar to roti shops.
She said people were made aware that it was a pick-up service only and they could not eat at the establishment.
“We told people to stay in their vehicles, only one customer at a time was being allowed in,” she said. “There was no crowd gathered. People called in and placed their orders and then they came to pick up.”
She said this was the method being used by fast food outlets like KFC and Subway, which have been allowed to continue their operations.
The process was going smoothly when police appeared on the scene, she said.
“They came around to the back of the building and asked who was the owner. Then they told us we had to shut down immediately because we are not an essential service.”
Hosein-Richards said this was confusing as less than 20 feet away a bar-b-que shop was open and grilling outside.
Stalls selling burgers and gyros were also opened, she added.
“All the burger shops and whatnot still open. They did not ask them to close.”
Hosein-Richards lamented that the police did not allow her to sell the food that was already made even though orders were placed beforehand and customers had already paid.
“I had to refund all the customers. And my workers that come out, I had to pay them as well,” she said.
Exploring legal options
Hosein-Richards hinted at discrimination and said she is now exploring her legal options.
She added that several attorneys, including attorney Prakash Ramadhar have contacted her, offering their services.
“I did not want to go down that road and put my family through that but if it has to be like that, I will. Doubles is a cheap food. It is the poor man’s food. We should be able to supply people with an affordable meal.”
D’Original Sauce Doubles also called for clarity on the matter in a Facebook post.
“What I do not understand is how all other food places are essential and not doubles. My shop was following the guidelines as directed to just have take away. One person was let inside to collect their order and was rotating, keeping customers five feet apart outside just as KFC and Subway. My shop is structured just as a BBQ shop, a roti shop and like KFC, Subway etc. So how can they open and we cannot? Explain this to me please, someone in authority, if this goes for one it should go for all...tell me doubles is part of our lives.”
The post was shared over 1,200 times and attracted hundreds of comments from people both in support of and against the police action. Some voiced their opinion that D’Original Sauce Doubles should be allowed to provide pick-up services like other restaurants, or all food places should be closed.
Others said D’Original Sauce Doubles is not an established restaurant and should not have been opened yesterday.
Economist Indera Sagewan was one of those calling for transparency.
“I am on record supporting the government in its fight against COVID-19. I give credit where due but hold to account where injustice is evident,” she said in a Facebook post.
“If Subway, KFC and other fast food chains are essential then so should doubles! Now I don’t mean the doubles vendor on the side of the road, but certainly the doubles vendors who like other businesses have modified their service offering to ‘order and collect’ only out of shops.”
Sagewan said she believed all food outlets should be closed “because there’s a lot of handling and it encourages persons to be on the road to buy.”
“However, if it is so deemed, then there must be fairness and transparency,” she stated.
“Doubles served out of a shop outlet practicing social distancing restricted to take out only should not be discriminated against. If no doubles, then no KFC, Subway, Hakka, Burger King. All or none!”
Speaking with the Sunday Express yesterday, Griffith said the Police Service was simply carrying out the Government’s policy.
“The Chief Medical Officer has given a directive that all mobile and roadside vending must cease. So the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, it is our obligation to assist in ensuring that this mandate is adhered to. Our job in the Police Service is to carry out government policy and enforce the law.”
Griffith said doubles was not specifically targeted.
“This is bigger than Sauce Doubles,” he said. “It is not just about Sauce Doubles, it is vendors across the board. People who sell hotdogs, hamburgers, corn soup, shark and bake, the sno-cone man around the Savannah...all roadside vending or mobile vending regardless of where it is.”
Asked whether Sauce Doubles, being in an enclosed location, should be viewed on the same level as other fast food outlets, Griffith said this is not up to him to decide.
“The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service does not establish or implement policies. That is for the government, not the Police Service. Our job is just to ensure that we implement policies while enforcing the law.”
Efforts to reach National Security Minister Stuart Young for comment yesterday were unsuccessful.
MaxPower wrote:Friends,
This is not a time for war among ourselves.
Imagine Trinis fighting over doubles and KFC, two of the most unhealthiest foods around and not even studying the main objective....STAY HOME.
But as i said, things are too nice in T&T for people to care. Allyuh too busy watching other people pocket and not even looking at yourselves.
Redman wrote:De Dragon wrote:Redman wrote:De Dragon wrote:Redman wrote:rspann wrote:I don't even get why the fuss about who getting to sell and who getting closed down. With this disease in full swing ,who really want to eat outside and risk getting infected ? Even the paper the doubles wrapped in and the KFC box are potential sources .
Cuz whiners need to whiners.
No, people who have had their businesses shut down for close to a month now, (and now doubles/pie whatever vendors) with the resultant loss of employment for their staff need to know why their businesses have to close while the more crowded establishments like KFC, Starbucks, Pizza Hut etc. continue to operate.
Couple this with the Minister of Labour seeming not to know what the F*ck is going on with the unemployment relief, it is, or should be, understandable that people have questions.
As I said.
As I said, you are an illiterate and uncaring tool. I have no skin in this doubles game, but if to fools like you, people questioning their future livelihood is "whining" then I'll continue to "whine" with or without your unnecessary permission.
Illiterate obviously is the wrong word.You should look it up.
But your whining continues to prove the point.
Neighbor had a travel history?ST Auto wrote:Two elderly persons who are family tested positive for the virus. No travel history however their neighbor was tested positive a few days before.
nemisis wrote:Little girl stay out of conversations that don't involve you. I'm sure smash is just arguing the hypocrisy with having doubles vendors as an example closed while kfc as a separate example open. If you figure either or us eating that sheit on a regular or leaving the house for something other than work and market you clearly more dotish that I gave you credit for....MaxPower wrote:Friends,
This is not a time for war among ourselves.
Imagine Trinis fighting over doubles and KFC, two of the most unhealthiest foods around and not even studying the main objective....STAY HOME.
But as i said, things are too nice in T&T for people to care. Allyuh too busy watching other people pocket and not even looking at yourselves.
hydroep wrote:If we are to take the article at face value then it would appear the police erred. From Gary's statement, it looks as if they're classifying ALL "doubles vendors" as "mobile and roadside vendors" notwithstanding the owner was operating from within a building and adhering to other Government stipulations.
The fact that Stuarty ducking calls eh helping their case at all...Why us and not KFC and the others?
Sauce Doubles owner angry over shutdown action...
Camille Hunte
POLICE Commissioner Gary Griffith says the decision to shut down D’Original Sauce Doubles in Curepe yesterday was done in keeping with the policies of the Government.
Griffith spoke to the Sunday Express after police moved in and ordered D’Original Sauce Doubles branch owner, Kelly Hosein-Richards, to close up shop.
Hosein-Richards said she is now contemplating legal action against the Government.
Government has ordered all non-essential businesses closed and non-essential workers to stay at home in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Restaurants and places that provide food are allowed to open for business, once they provide delivery or curbside pick-up services and they do not allow people to congregate.
Hosein-Richards told the Sunday Express she opened her business yesterday, following all the guidelines from health authorities.
She said her business was not like other doubles vendors who sell from a stall or tent on the street and is at a fixed and enclosed location, similar to roti shops.
She said people were made aware that it was a pick-up service only and they could not eat at the establishment.
“We told people to stay in their vehicles, only one customer at a time was being allowed in,” she said. “There was no crowd gathered. People called in and placed their orders and then they came to pick up.”
She said this was the method being used by fast food outlets like KFC and Subway, which have been allowed to continue their operations.
The process was going smoothly when police appeared on the scene, she said.
“They came around to the back of the building and asked who was the owner. Then they told us we had to shut down immediately because we are not an essential service.”
Hosein-Richards said this was confusing as less than 20 feet away a bar-b-que shop was open and grilling outside.
Stalls selling burgers and gyros were also opened, she added.
“All the burger shops and whatnot still open. They did not ask them to close.”
Hosein-Richards lamented that the police did not allow her to sell the food that was already made even though orders were placed beforehand and customers had already paid.
“I had to refund all the customers. And my workers that come out, I had to pay them as well,” she said.
Exploring legal options
Hosein-Richards hinted at discrimination and said she is now exploring her legal options.
She added that several attorneys, including attorney Prakash Ramadhar have contacted her, offering their services.
“I did not want to go down that road and put my family through that but if it has to be like that, I will. Doubles is a cheap food. It is the poor man’s food. We should be able to supply people with an affordable meal.”
D’Original Sauce Doubles also called for clarity on the matter in a Facebook post.
“What I do not understand is how all other food places are essential and not doubles. My shop was following the guidelines as directed to just have take away. One person was let inside to collect their order and was rotating, keeping customers five feet apart outside just as KFC and Subway. My shop is structured just as a BBQ shop, a roti shop and like KFC, Subway etc. So how can they open and we cannot? Explain this to me please, someone in authority, if this goes for one it should go for all...tell me doubles is part of our lives.”
The post was shared over 1,200 times and attracted hundreds of comments from people both in support of and against the police action. Some voiced their opinion that D’Original Sauce Doubles should be allowed to provide pick-up services like other restaurants, or all food places should be closed.
Others said D’Original Sauce Doubles is not an established restaurant and should not have been opened yesterday.
Economist Indera Sagewan was one of those calling for transparency.
“I am on record supporting the government in its fight against COVID-19. I give credit where due but hold to account where injustice is evident,” she said in a Facebook post.
“If Subway, KFC and other fast food chains are essential then so should doubles! Now I don’t mean the doubles vendor on the side of the road, but certainly the doubles vendors who like other businesses have modified their service offering to ‘order and collect’ only out of shops.”
Sagewan said she believed all food outlets should be closed “because there’s a lot of handling and it encourages persons to be on the road to buy.”
“However, if it is so deemed, then there must be fairness and transparency,” she stated.
“Doubles served out of a shop outlet practicing social distancing restricted to take out only should not be discriminated against. If no doubles, then no KFC, Subway, Hakka, Burger King. All or none!”
Speaking with the Sunday Express yesterday, Griffith said the Police Service was simply carrying out the Government’s policy.
“The Chief Medical Officer has given a directive that all mobile and roadside vending must cease. So the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, it is our obligation to assist in ensuring that this mandate is adhered to. Our job in the Police Service is to carry out government policy and enforce the law.”
Griffith said doubles was not specifically targeted.
“This is bigger than Sauce Doubles,” he said. “It is not just about Sauce Doubles, it is vendors across the board. People who sell hotdogs, hamburgers, corn soup, shark and bake, the sno-cone man around the Savannah...all roadside vending or mobile vending regardless of where it is.”
Asked whether Sauce Doubles, being in an enclosed location, should be viewed on the same level as other fast food outlets, Griffith said this is not up to him to decide.
“The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service does not establish or implement policies. That is for the government, not the Police Service. Our job is just to ensure that we implement policies while enforcing the law.”
Efforts to reach National Security Minister Stuart Young for comment yesterday were unsuccessful.
https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/why-us-and-not-kfc-and-the-others/article_373550fe-76dc-11ea-89ea-e7d6b937f28d.html
hydroep wrote:If we are to take the article at face value then it would appear the police erred. From Gary's statement, it looks as if they're classifying ALL "doubles vendors" as "mobile and roadside vendors" notwithstanding the owner was operating from within a building and adhering to other Government stipulations.
The fact that Stuarty ducking calls eh helping their case at all...Why us and not KFC and the others?
Sauce Doubles owner angry over shutdown action...
Camille Hunte
POLICE Commissioner Gary Griffith says the decision to shut down D’Original Sauce Doubles in Curepe yesterday was done in keeping with the policies of the Government.
Griffith spoke to the Sunday Express after police moved in and ordered D’Original Sauce Doubles branch owner, Kelly Hosein-Richards, to close up shop.
Hosein-Richards said she is now contemplating legal action against the Government.
Government has ordered all non-essential businesses closed and non-essential workers to stay at home in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Restaurants and places that provide food are allowed to open for business, once they provide delivery or curbside pick-up services and they do not allow people to congregate.
Hosein-Richards told the Sunday Express she opened her business yesterday, following all the guidelines from health authorities.
She said her business was not like other doubles vendors who sell from a stall or tent on the street and is at a fixed and enclosed location, similar to roti shops.
She said people were made aware that it was a pick-up service only and they could not eat at the establishment.
“We told people to stay in their vehicles, only one customer at a time was being allowed in,” she said. “There was no crowd gathered. People called in and placed their orders and then they came to pick up.”
She said this was the method being used by fast food outlets like KFC and Subway, which have been allowed to continue their operations.
The process was going smoothly when police appeared on the scene, she said.
“They came around to the back of the building and asked who was the owner. Then they told us we had to shut down immediately because we are not an essential service.”
Hosein-Richards said this was confusing as less than 20 feet away a bar-b-que shop was open and grilling outside.
Stalls selling burgers and gyros were also opened, she added.
“All the burger shops and whatnot still open. They did not ask them to close.”
Hosein-Richards lamented that the police did not allow her to sell the food that was already made even though orders were placed beforehand and customers had already paid.
“I had to refund all the customers. And my workers that come out, I had to pay them as well,” she said.
Exploring legal options
Hosein-Richards hinted at discrimination and said she is now exploring her legal options.
She added that several attorneys, including attorney Prakash Ramadhar have contacted her, offering their services.
“I did not want to go down that road and put my family through that but if it has to be like that, I will. Doubles is a cheap food. It is the poor man’s food. We should be able to supply people with an affordable meal.”
D’Original Sauce Doubles also called for clarity on the matter in a Facebook post.
“What I do not understand is how all other food places are essential and not doubles. My shop was following the guidelines as directed to just have take away. One person was let inside to collect their order and was rotating, keeping customers five feet apart outside just as KFC and Subway. My shop is structured just as a BBQ shop, a roti shop and like KFC, Subway etc. So how can they open and we cannot? Explain this to me please, someone in authority, if this goes for one it should go for all...tell me doubles is part of our lives.”
The post was shared over 1,200 times and attracted hundreds of comments from people both in support of and against the police action. Some voiced their opinion that D’Original Sauce Doubles should be allowed to provide pick-up services like other restaurants, or all food places should be closed.
Others said D’Original Sauce Doubles is not an established restaurant and should not have been opened yesterday.
Economist Indera Sagewan was one of those calling for transparency.
“I am on record supporting the government in its fight against COVID-19. I give credit where due but hold to account where injustice is evident,” she said in a Facebook post.
“If Subway, KFC and other fast food chains are essential then so should doubles! Now I don’t mean the doubles vendor on the side of the road, but certainly the doubles vendors who like other businesses have modified their service offering to ‘order and collect’ only out of shops.”
Sagewan said she believed all food outlets should be closed “because there’s a lot of handling and it encourages persons to be on the road to buy.”
“However, if it is so deemed, then there must be fairness and transparency,” she stated.
“Doubles served out of a shop outlet practicing social distancing restricted to take out only should not be discriminated against. If no doubles, then no KFC, Subway, Hakka, Burger King. All or none!”
Speaking with the Sunday Express yesterday, Griffith said the Police Service was simply carrying out the Government’s policy.
“The Chief Medical Officer has given a directive that all mobile and roadside vending must cease. So the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, it is our obligation to assist in ensuring that this mandate is adhered to. Our job in the Police Service is to carry out government policy and enforce the law.”
Griffith said doubles was not specifically targeted.
“This is bigger than Sauce Doubles,” he said. “It is not just about Sauce Doubles, it is vendors across the board. People who sell hotdogs, hamburgers, corn soup, shark and bake, the sno-cone man around the Savannah...all roadside vending or mobile vending regardless of where it is.”
Asked whether Sauce Doubles, being in an enclosed location, should be viewed on the same level as other fast food outlets, Griffith said this is not up to him to decide.
“The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service does not establish or implement policies. That is for the government, not the Police Service. Our job is just to ensure that we implement policies while enforcing the law.”
Efforts to reach National Security Minister Stuart Young for comment yesterday were unsuccessful.
https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/why-us-and-not-kfc-and-the-others/article_373550fe-76dc-11ea-89ea-e7d6b937f28d.html
Redress10 wrote:The argument is not about doubles but whether the police erred in shutting down this particular place. It can't be that a particular food is outlawed but how that particular food is sold.
I have no problems with doubles being sold the same way that KFC etc being sold. Just like how Hoseins and the other roti shops are staying open then a doubles place that operating similarly should be allowed as well.
Realistically how many places have a doubles type restaurant? So anyone advocating for street side doubles vending being delusional and pushing an agenda.
But again, apart from ppl providing essential services who leaving their home to buy fast food of all things? In these times? You want to be fighting potential food poisoning that could put you in the hospital and at risk for contracting corona? Ppl want to fight corona and gastro at the same time?
MaxPower wrote:nemisis wrote:Little girl stay out of conversations that don't involve you. I'm sure smash is just arguing the hypocrisy with having doubles vendors as an example closed while kfc as a separate example open. If you figure either or us eating that sheit on a regular or leaving the house for something other than work and market you clearly more dotish that I gave you credit for....MaxPower wrote:Friends,
This is not a time for war among ourselves.
Imagine Trinis fighting over doubles and KFC, two of the most unhealthiest foods around and not even studying the main objective....STAY HOME.
But as i said, things are too nice in T&T for people to care. Allyuh too busy watching other people pocket and not even looking at yourselves.
Lol study your suffering ass broke na with your pathetic pay check to pay check lifestyle.
You fed up beg for April pay yet or you still begging?
Try and save some money na so u in future you wont have to depend on KFC and doubles in these times.
Covid 19 sure killing you by eviction and starvation.
Run along now.
nemisis wrote:I sorry I see the stress of the situation has been building up on you and I don't really want to add to your load. I know you make your living on corners at night and you probably haven't met your quota for wet heads.MaxPower wrote:nemisis wrote:Little girl stay out of conversations that don't involve you. I'm sure smash is just arguing the hypocrisy with having doubles vendors as an example closed while kfc as a separate example open. If you figure either or us eating that sheit on a regular or leaving the house for something other than work and market you clearly more dotish that I gave you credit for....MaxPower wrote:Friends,
This is not a time for war among ourselves.
Imagine Trinis fighting over doubles and KFC, two of the most unhealthiest foods around and not even studying the main objective....STAY HOME.
But as i said, things are too nice in T&T for people to care. Allyuh too busy watching other people pocket and not even looking at yourselves.
Lol study your suffering ass broke na with your pathetic pay check to pay check lifestyle.
You fed up beg for April pay yet or you still begging?
Try and save some money na so u in future you wont have to depend on KFC and doubles in these times.
Covid 19 sure killing you by eviction and starvation.
Run along now.
bluefete wrote:Queen's Speech on C-19. She will be 94 years old this month (26th April).
No_Name wrote:Just sitting in my front yard breezing, 3 Spanish walkin down d rd closely together, normal with em btw...
Wonder how come Stink Goatie Mouth Stuarty doh hava translater fuh dem too during the addresses? After all iz him et al who encouraged em in & continues too apparently, according to meh famalie in Icacos...!!!
MaxPower wrote:No_Name wrote:Just sitting in my front yard breezing, 3 Spanish walkin down d rd closely together, normal with em btw...
Wonder how come Stink Goatie Mouth Stuarty doh hava translater fuh dem too during the addresses? After all iz him et al who encouraged em in & continues too apparently, according to meh famalie in Icacos...!!!
Hwllo No_Name,
Do you see these “spanish” fighting among eachother?
Do you see them totally ignoring social distancing in groceries, markets, KFC lines and on that urine scented promenade?
How many “spanish” were tested positive for Covid 19?
Your comments are appreciated.
No_Name wrote:MaxPower wrote:No_Name wrote:Just sitting in my front yard breezing, 3 Spanish walkin down d rd closely together, normal with em btw...
Wonder how come Stink Goatie Mouth Stuarty doh hava translater fuh dem too during the addresses? After all iz him et al who encouraged em in & continues too apparently, according to meh famalie in Icacos...!!!
Hwllo No_Name,
Do you see these “spanish” fighting among eachother?
Do you see them totally ignoring social distancing in groceries, markets, KFC lines and on that urine scented promenade?
How many “spanish” were tested positive for Covid 19?
Your comments are appreciated.
No problem dey Max, glad to knw I can enlighten you that they still walk the rds in groups and crowd the minimarts...
Seems as though yr not aware as not any of my observations on yr list...
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