Tuesday August 22, 2023, France 3 regions echoed five employees of the restaurant Les Reflets du Val d’Argent in Saint-Marie-aux-Mines (Haut-Rhin), cheated by their boss. Patrice Pfeiffer, a 58-year-old man, would not have paid them since July 2023. The last salary of some employees even dates back to June 2023. On August 9, 2023, Patrice Pfeiffer would have telephoned Yaëlle Golosetti, waitress, to ask her to open the establishment. “On Wednesday August 9, my boss calls me and tells me that it’s up to me to open the restaurant because he has an impediment. Since then, no news”, she told our colleagues. Financial problem? According to Ludovic Burstert, cook at this renowned place, however, there was no cloud to report on that side. “He said everything was fine, the company was fine, the finances were fine…”, he listed. Before specifying : “He is a very solitary person, who keeps everything to himself, and who says nothing, even if we try to pull the worms out of him.”
Warning signs?
“There were no warning signs, perhaps a lack of motivation and fatigue, but that’s normal in our profession. Nothing alarming in any case”also specifies the cook interviewed by France 3 regions. It is therefore difficult to know which saint to devote oneself to. Yaëlle Golosetti would have reported this disappearance on the evening of Wednesday August 9, 2023. The phone of the resigning boss would have been geolocated in the Drôme then in Montpellier (Hérault). The gendarmes would have deduced from it that it was about a voluntary disappearance. No investigation has therefore been opened for the worrying disappearance. France 3 regions specifies thatwhile waiting for the situation to unblock, no dish comes out of the kitchens. Without customers, without salaries, but still contractually linked to the restaurant, the employees are condemned to come to their place of work and cannot look for another job. Between card games and cleaning for “keep the place clean”they care. “Otherwise, it is considered as an abandonment of position”recalled Yaëlle Golosetti at the microphone of France 3 regions. Adding: “It’s hard. The coming weeks are going to be very complicated”.