The Korea Times
Major food and beverage franchise company Theborn Korea is under dual investigation by the government and police after its signature low-budget coffee brand Paik’s Coffee became embroiled in a dispute between franchisees and a part-time worker over allegedly stolen drinks. The Ministry of Employment and Labor dispatched officials from its Labor Inspection Planning Division to two Paik’s Coffee stores in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, where the employer-employee dispute occurred. The Cheongju Cheongwon Police Station is also investigating the case. Each franchisee accused a part-time worker in her 20s of giving beverages to friends and acquaintances or taking drinks herself without informing her employers. One franchisee claimed the worker took 112 drinks without permission while employed from May to October last year. Another franchisee, who had hired her before May, said she improperly accumulated store credit stamps worth 350,000 won ($232) by violating company regulations. The worker said she took only three iced Americanos without paying when she quit one of the stores. She
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