Gramercy owner Mitchell Suchowacki said his cafe had been serving bacon
in breakfast bagels and on toast for nearly two years to happy customers
and that the complaint he received last month was “incredibly
frustrating”.
“The biggest thing was the shock of not knowing anything about it and then having this massive drama arise overnight,”
Mr Suchowacki said.
He said Mr Yeung had been in touch with centre management previously but
had never raised the issue with him personally, despite working in
proximity to the cafe.
“We have no relationship with the tenant upstairs and if we had just talked about it face-to-face we could have come to an arrangement to keep both parties happy,” he said. “It’s a shame because it places us in a bad light and we never knew anything about it.” Instead, Mr Suchowacki spent weeks experimenting with cooking styles to avoid further heat from his neighbor. “It all got too much so we just cut bacon out completely and now we serve jamon, which people are happy to have,” he said.
Mr Yeung declined to comment, but a Wintergarden spokesperson confirmed
the issue was raised and under Gramercy’s lease agreement cooking bacon
“is not and has never been permissible”.
“The cooking of bacon impacted the quiet enjoyment of another tenant in
the center and therefore Gramercy were reminded of the items they were
able to cook within their Edward St tenancy without an extraction fan,”
the spokesperson said.
Mr Suchowacki said the situation has left him unable to provide a
popular breakfast ingredient.
“We have no relationship with the tenant upstairs and if we had just talked about it face-to-face we could have come to an arrangement to keep both parties happy,” he said. “It’s a shame because it places us in a bad light and we never knew anything about it.” Instead, Mr Suchowacki spent weeks experimenting with cooking styles to avoid further heat from his neighbor. “It all got too much so we just cut bacon out completely and now we serve jamon, which people are happy to have,” he said.
Mr Yeung declined to comment, but a Wintergarden spokesperson confirmed
the issue was raised and under Gramercy’s lease agreement cooking bacon
“is not and has never been permissible”.
“The cooking of bacon impacted the quiet enjoyment of another tenant in
the center and therefore Gramercy were reminded of the items they were
able to cook within their Edward St tenancy without an extraction fan,”
the spokesperson said.
Mr Suchowacki said the situation has left him unable to provide a
popular breakfast ingredient.
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