Chapter 4 - Richard Was More Than A Customer
Richard Vale ran Vale Meridian Group.
Hotels.
Private clubs.
Luxury event properties.
He was also negotiating to acquire Bellamy House.
Victor wanted the sale.
Emma had not decided.
Richard knew the restaurant had staffing problems.
He had seen turnover reports.
He had seen declining employee satisfaction numbers.
What Emma did not know until the audit began was that Vale Meridian had received unusual “event credits” after several private dinners.
Credits that came out of the same revenue pool feeding service-charge distributions.
Vanessa, Richard’s chief communications officer and girlfriend, had negotiated many of them.
The credits were not automatically improper.
Corporate clients negotiate discounts all the time.
The problem was that nobody had disclosed how those credits affected staff pay.
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Someone inside Bellamy had been approving them.
Emma needed to know who.
