A Dishwasher died in the kitchen at Ospi Montecito this morning. They pressured workers to work through it.
Posting for awareness as they have LA locations. Nasty stuff.
by smokewheat
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shwey
Oh man, this is disgusting. I love their Venice location and decided to try the Costa Mesa one last week and really regretted it. Smelled like piss throughout the restaurant and the servers were so disengaged.
Definitely crossing them off my repeat restaurant list.
siempreroma
Is this a fucking joke?
middle-aged-iroh
Woof. Boycott.
MeanWoodpecker9971
I see things like this and I think. At what point do people stop doing shit like this? Like can we not have enough of a backlash that places like this close? How horrid. Sorry for the workers that just need to feed their families. See also worker protections which we have literally none. You can be fired for any reason with no consequences to the employer in most of America.
juicinginparadise
About 10 years ago my office was located about 100 feet from a 7/11. One of the employees died of a heart attack on the job. They shut down the place and the next day they asked if they could use our conference room for grief counseling for the employees.
I don’t know if that was a corporate thing or if it was the Franchise owner, but that was definitely the right move. Making you employees work after seeing their dead co-worker is just cold. Shows you the value they place on their employees.
PM_ME_KITTEN_TOESIES
Fucking disgusting. There was a thread about deaths in the kitchen on r/kitchenconfidential recently with stories about servers having to pass hot plates over seizing coworkers, or managers making everyone carry on as normal after a team member ODs in the bathroom. Even customers complaining about wait times after being told the chef had a medical emergency.
As a patron, I would much rather be told that service is ending early for the night than find out I was dining several feet away from a corpse.
InCOBETReddit
article was updated that refutes every part of OP’s title
is that the restaurant owned by Jackson Kalb and Melissa Saka?
JesseThorn
Wait, the company that owns the restaurant is called MEMENTO MORI? 😵
mawmaw99
A death onsite is a tragedy. That doesn’t always mean we need to Reddit about it and blame the evil owners.
bodie0
The article has been updated to say that the owners say it was a member of the “third party cleaning crew” and not a dishwasher.
Here is the posted update at the top of the piece:
[Update: Aug. 18, 2025, 5:10pm] Representatives from Memento Mori, the parent company of Ospi Montecito, told the Independent that the individual who was found dead early Monday morning was not a dishwasher employed by the restaurant. He was a member of a cleaning crew employed by a third-party contractor.
Nick Asoli, director of Operations for Memento Mori, stated that “nobody was pressured” to continue working, and that no regular employees were scheduled to arrive until after the property was cleared by authorities. “Nobody was told they would be fired, and everybody was given the option to leave or not come to work,” Asoli said.
All proper law enforcement procedures were followed, Asoli said, and the building was cleaned, decontaminated, and cleared of any hazardous materials. He refuted claims that employees were forced to work and clarified that Ospi Montecito would stay closed for the remainder of the day on August 18.
[Original Story]
ElBigKahuna
Watched the WWE documentary on Netflix. Vince McMahon continued the show after Owen Hart died from an accidental fall mid show. Vince made all his colleagues keep working inside the ring they just dragged their colleagues dead body from. Now his wife is ruining our department of education with the same level of heartlessness.
ExcellentKangaroo764
What? Isn’t that illegal?
mrjo225
Apparently the person wasn’t an employee of ospi and wasn’t a dishwasher .. just fyi the article was updated
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Oh man, this is disgusting. I love their Venice location and decided to try the Costa Mesa one last week and really regretted it. Smelled like piss throughout the restaurant and the servers were so disengaged.
Definitely crossing them off my repeat restaurant list.
Is this a fucking joke?
Woof. Boycott.
I see things like this and I think. At what point do people stop doing shit like this? Like can we not have enough of a backlash that places like this close? How horrid. Sorry for the workers that just need to feed their families. See also worker protections which we have literally none. You can be fired for any reason with no consequences to the employer in most of America.
About 10 years ago my office was located about 100 feet from a 7/11. One of the employees died of a heart attack on the job. They shut down the place and the next day they asked if they could use our conference room for grief counseling for the employees.
I don’t know if that was a corporate thing or if it was the Franchise owner, but that was definitely the right move. Making you employees work after seeing their dead co-worker is just cold. Shows you the value they place on their employees.
Fucking disgusting. There was a thread about deaths in the kitchen on r/kitchenconfidential recently with stories about servers having to pass hot plates over seizing coworkers, or managers making everyone carry on as normal after a team member ODs in the bathroom. Even customers complaining about wait times after being told the chef had a medical emergency.
As a patron, I would much rather be told that service is ending early for the night than find out I was dining several feet away from a corpse.
article was updated that refutes every part of OP’s title
https://preview.redd.it/1cuppnqjfvjf1.png?width=386&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f7e44a3ee9348a70e828645aac6228542b8bbd7
is that the restaurant owned by Jackson Kalb and Melissa Saka?
Wait, the company that owns the restaurant is called MEMENTO MORI? 😵
A death onsite is a tragedy. That doesn’t always mean we need to Reddit about it and blame the evil owners.
The article has been updated to say that the owners say it was a member of the “third party cleaning crew” and not a dishwasher.
Here is the posted update at the top of the piece:
[Update: Aug. 18, 2025, 5:10pm] Representatives from Memento Mori, the parent company of Ospi Montecito, told the Independent that the individual who was found dead early Monday morning was not a dishwasher employed by the restaurant. He was a member of a cleaning crew employed by a third-party contractor.
Nick Asoli, director of Operations for Memento Mori, stated that “nobody was pressured” to continue working, and that no regular employees were scheduled to arrive until after the property was cleared by authorities. “Nobody was told they would be fired, and everybody was given the option to leave or not come to work,” Asoli said.
All proper law enforcement procedures were followed, Asoli said, and the building was cleaned, decontaminated, and cleared of any hazardous materials. He refuted claims that employees were forced to work and clarified that Ospi Montecito would stay closed for the remainder of the day on August 18.
[Original Story]
Watched the WWE documentary on Netflix. Vince McMahon continued the show after Owen Hart died from an accidental fall mid show. Vince made all his colleagues keep working inside the ring they just dragged their colleagues dead body from. Now his wife is ruining our department of education with the same level of heartlessness.
What? Isn’t that illegal?
Apparently the person wasn’t an employee of ospi and wasn’t a dishwasher .. just fyi the article was updated