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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: BillyStubbsTears on September 13, 2023, 05:57:57 pm

Title: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on September 13, 2023, 05:57:57 pm
https://news.sky.com/story/patisserie-valerie-four-people-face-fraud-charges-over-bakery-chains-collapse-12960495

The managers are clearly guilty. They wanted to have their cake and eat it.
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: Colemans Left Hook on September 13, 2023, 06:41:07 pm
think they stole the dough 
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: NickDRFC on September 13, 2023, 08:27:46 pm
Paul May, the former CEO there, was on our board for a number of years during the glory days.
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: belton rover on September 13, 2023, 10:14:49 pm
They kneed to prove they didn’t dough it.
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: Bentley Bullet on September 13, 2023, 10:39:56 pm
The absence of a comment from Filo is quite suspicious if you ask me.
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: SydneyRover on September 13, 2023, 10:42:55 pm
He's not currantly available
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: Bentley Bullet on September 13, 2023, 10:55:07 pm
I heard one of the managers made that much profiteroles Royce was parked up in his drive.
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: belton rover on September 13, 2023, 11:16:15 pm
Apparently they were selling one particular type of cake at a ridiculously high price to cover their tracks.
When he was questioned about it, the owner replied ‘That’s Madera Cake.’
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on September 14, 2023, 12:24:57 am
And of course there was the time I was queueing up there and a Scotsman pointed at the cakes and asked me, "Is that a scone or a meringue?"

I told him he was right, it was a scone.
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: Donnywolf on September 14, 2023, 07:25:23 am
Quote from: Bentley Bullet on September 13, 2023, 10:39:56 pm
The absence of a comment from Filo is quite suspicious if you ask me.

Whichever way you slice it , he's missing. Somebody has chouxed him off
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: SydneyRover on September 14, 2023, 07:47:05 am
They were caught fudging the books apparently ..............
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: Not Now Kato on September 14, 2023, 07:48:41 am
Nah, it’s all pie in the sky.
Title: Re: Fraud at Patisserie Valerie
Post by: SydneyRover on September 14, 2023, 08:03:52 am
They should all be torta lesson