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  • Diners Splashed by Waste Water At Jem

    Diners Splashed by Waste Water At Jem

    The couple, who happened to be sitting under the pipe, were drenched by the downpour, according to an eyewitness.

    “The pregnant lady let out a horrified scream, and they were both stunned for a few minutes,” said a 28-year-old business owner who wanted to be identified only as Sandra.

    “Her husband then pulled her away from the table,” she wrote in a report to citizen journalism website Stomp.

    A spokesman for Jem confirmed that the incident happened at 8.45pm, and the leak was from a kitchen waste pipe.

    “Technical and cleaning crews were immediately deployed to assist (people) at the store. Investigation is still in progress,” the spokesman added.

    Din Tai Fung, which is on the second floor of the mall, was open for business yesterday.

    The eyewitness told The Straits Times that black water gushed out for about three minutes, before slowing to a drip.

    “It stunk like faeces,” she noted.

    While the couple bore the brunt of the burst pipe as they were right under it and away from other diners, some of the water had also splashed on other diners.

    The restaurant chain is operated by the BreadTalk group, which would not comment further, other than to say the company would work with the landlord and leave it to investigate the matter.

    Such incidents are not new to Jem.

    In April, a salad shop, Saladworks, also on the second floor, was flooded when a blocked waste pipe caused a backflow of water into the store.

    In June last year, sprinklers on the third floor of the mall were triggered unexpectedly, damaging shop goods and forcing some tenants to close for the day.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Saladworks In JEM Flooded

    Saladworks In JEM Flooded

    A salad shop in Jem mall in Jurong was flooded on Thursday evening.

    An employee of Saladworks, which is on the second floor of the Jurong East mall, said that the flood occurred at about 4.40pm, and that “water just started coming from the pipe”. She said she believed that units directly below the shop were also affected.

    When The Straits Times visited the shopping mall at 8.30pm, workers were seen mopping the floor outside the shop. The eatery was closed, and a section of its storefront blocked off from public access. Sandbags were placed near the entrance of the Paris Baguette cafe next door, which was still open for business.

    One floor below, an upriding escalator was out of service, and water was seen dripping from the ceiling.

    An employee working at PrettyFIT shoes store, which is two units away from Saladworks, said it was not the first time the eatery was flooded.

    The employee, who wanted to be known only as Yolanda, said: “A few months ago, near Christmas time, there was another flood. That was bad, it affected Paris Baguette and PrettyFIT.”

    Ms Yolanda added that a friend who works at the salad shop told her that the first flooding occurred because of a clogged pipe.

    Several incidents have been reported at the shopping mall which opened in June 2013, including at least two small fires, flooding when sprinklers came on unexpectedly and a ceiling collapse due to a burst water pipe.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com