Over my 7 years in China, I have heard more stories of misguided management ethic than I can sometimes bare, but the worst stories of all come out of the food industry (melamine scandals aside).

On multiple occasions, I have read reports of where rival restaurant operators will literally put poison into the food that wil be served at the other restaurant… I guess the logic being that if the clientele gets sick at the rival store, that they will benefit.

While true that  a restaurant with a reputation for poor quality is less likely to succeed,I am absolutely repulsed to see that there are those who actually have so little regard for human life still exist.  That a strategy for dealing with the fact that someone else is more successful can somehow be dealt with by endangering the lives of others.. countless others who were simply trying to grab a bowl of noodles for lunch…. over and over and over and over again.

Now, perhaps at this point I would be better off stopping, but where I am constantly amazed is that people in China are willing to risk everything for so little..so needlessly… and that the life and death decisions of individuals are made without regard for those individuals

I know that is a broad cultural statement that may land me in comment hell, and I’ll agree that these cases are isolated, but it needed to be said..