THE meeting between the new owners of the Wolseley, Minor International, and their staff last week was marred by an unfortunate comment about plans to open a branch in Russia.
Author Susan Hill, who wrote The Woman In Black, says that Jeremy King, pictured, appeared to have been “escorted” from the restaurant he helped found. Hill continued in the Spectator: “The employees were summoned to a meeting with their new masters, to be told that they would become part of a global brand, with little Wolseleys cloned all over the world.
