The criminal part of this story aside, what I am concerned about is that Ovations is sub-contracting out bartending services;
Ovations Food Services General Manager Chad Stoner sent KELOLAND News a statement about the investigation. Ovations is the food and beverage vendor for the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center. Stoner writes the company is working with, “authorities as they investigate allegations” He adds the alleged suspect “was not an employee of Ovations,” but hired by a third-party vendor to work that particular concert.
Questions:
1) What if someone gets ill or dies from the drugging that took place, who gets sued? The sub-contractor? Ovations? The city of Sioux Falls?
2) Are these 3rd party hospitality workers getting proper training on health, age verification, ADA compliance, etc.?
3) If the Events Center was supposed to create so many ‘permanent’ jobs (either part-time OR full-time) why are we sub-contracting work out to temps?
We should be very concerned we are opening the city up for civil lawsuits because Ovations is trying to operate the EC on the cheap.
As I have said 100 times, the EC was built to make a lot of people money, just not the citizens of SF, who get to foot the mortgage every year.