Staff meals at a high-end New York restaurant that recently went all-vegan are causing staff to suffer exhaustion and, in one case, serious malnourishment, according to Business Insider.

These are just some of the problems Eleven Madison Park has faced since it decided to ditch all animal products from its menus last year.

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Chaos at high-end vegan restaurant

A former kitchen employee at the award-winning New York restaurant said the vegetable-based “family meals” prepared for staff left him starving during strenuous 14-hour shifts. He claimed his health suffered so much he had to see a doctor.

The employee even submitted a formal request to the management of the restaurant to be allowed to eat chicken, but he claims his request was ignored. Although staff members were permitted to bring food from home, the employee claimed the grueling hours and low wages meant he lacked the time and money to provide his own lunches. 

Eleven Madison Park was once named the best restaurant in the world, but has struggled to hire enough staff as a result of the pandemic. These staffing problems combined with a lack of ingredients resulted in overworked chefs having neither the time nor the means to provide properly nutritious meals, three more former employees told Business Insider. 

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Despite eating meat himself, celebrity chef Daniel Humm, who owns Eleven Madison Park, would not allow the family dishes to contain any animal products. One former employee said they ended up subsisting on cauliflower and beets. After their shift, employees would go and get fast food, like Sticky’s fried chicken or a McDondald’s burger.

“Everyone was depressed,” one former kitchen employee told Business Insider, who recalled employees at after-work drinks in 2021 fantasizing about quitting.

“Everyone was like, ‘This place is not OK.'”

The experience was one example of how Eleven Madison Park’s chaotic shift to veganism impacted its employees on the ground, a subject Business Insider has already reported on.

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