Calombaris collapses but wage theft rolls on across restaurants

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He’s cooked, at the ABC:

The restaurant business of former Masterchef judge George Calombaris has been put into administration, only months after being rocked by a staff underpayment scandal, with almost all venues to cease trading immediately and hundreds of employees affected.

A statement from KordaMentha on Monday said the company’s Craig Shepard and Leanne Chesser had been appointed voluntary administrators of 22 companies in the MAdE Establishment Group.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.