A patio, an Airbnb and a KFC Streetwise meal delivered with a big smile. One Platō Green Point boss has turned a consequence of taxi unrest into the kind of workplace moment TikTok cannot stop replaying.
The clip that stopped the scroll
A Platō Green Point employee shared a TikTok showing colleagues seated on an Airbnb patio. The boss had booked the accommodation for the team because of the taxi strikes. Then the meals arrived. The boss walks in with KFC Streetwise packs and hands them out with real cheer, as if the team had just won something.
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A strike, a stay and a shared meal
The clip surfaced as shootings linked to route disputes between rival taxi associations have left many Cape Town commuters fearing for their safety. Employees who rely on minibus taxis, a strike turns the trip home into a question mark. A boss who answers that question first gives the team one less worry. Staff shortages at Cape Town International Airport left passengers facing hour-long delays on Friday, as employees struggled to get to work amid the taxi violence.
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TikTok wants to queue at Plato Green Point
The clip had gathered 775 comments at the time of writing and the mood was unanimous. Viewers asked for the shop’s location, pledged to visit in numbers and called the boss a leader worth rewarding.
Viewers wasted no time pouring in. One asked, ‘Can we all go to Plato Greenpoint in numbers. Oh what a leader’, while another wanted to know, ‘Where’s your shop so we can come support in numbers’. Others saw the bigger picture, with one commenter noting, ‘it’s these small things that keeps employees loyal’ and another observing that ‘this boss cares and its so rare in our country’.
A third urged fellow viewers to ‘lets go in numbers and support employers who treat employees well’, and one promised to keep the tills ringing with ‘Coming to buy coffee from you guys even though I don’t even like coffee just so I can support yall’.
The curious chimed in too, with ‘I am nosey why couldn’t you go home?’, and one commenter shared a story of their own: ‘my manager came all the way from somerset west to khayelitsha makhaza to fetch me for my night shift’. A cheeky final voice added, ‘Tell Boss that im also single hle and been waiting for him’.
The team got a place to stay and a hot meal. TikTok got a feel-good story, and Platō Green Point may soon get a longer queue.
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