Yeah. I worked at a place where there was a second cash register that would be used for the first hour or so of business. The understanding was that those receipts were kept completely off the books and the income would thus be underreported for the day by a few hundred dollars. I assume the amount was minimal enough for any official agency not to notice, but enough to make it worthwhile for the owners to do it.
Amy is in complete and total denial and is enabled by Sammy who keeps bad things from her. Sammy obviously wanted help, he is the money man and has to see the business is failing and understand why. He didn’t have the balls to deal with Amy, he wanted Ramsay to do it. You can tell from the show, he is constantly telling her “lets listen to him”, “lets let him finish”, etc. He wanted Ramsay to fix her because he can’t.
I think this is the B&B you are referring to:
I used to live in Coeur d’ Alene, so I watched that particular episode.
This restaurant is around 4 miles from my house.
I was talking with a friend at the gym this morning, and he said that his son went over to the restaurant to see what all the fuss was about (I heard from someone else that they have been MOBBED recently), and one of the local news stations was filming a segment on the owners. The guy took out his cell phone to take a photo, and Sammy came over and started to cuss him out, and the news station went right on filming, and actually aired it on TV…
I’ve never eaten there. My wife and I always thought they were too pricey for the menu.
How much is too much for badly cooked frozen ravioli ??
Geez, that woman has a serious personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder, perhaps?
If Amy’s batshit crazy and thinks her food is good, maybe she’s nuts enough to think it’s a way to drum up business and process more money laundering?
The first question I would ask is, “What kind of baker wears black?”
Yup. A little over seven years ago, I accepted a job washing dishes, despite the fact that, at the time, I had more than 22 years of experience in restaurants, almost all as a cook. Because I needed a damn job, and it was the bad time of year trying to find a restaurant job in my area so nobody was hiring. I kept washing the dishes for two and half years (worth it - union job, health plan, 401k, and paid vacations, and thanks to all the overtime and my share of the gratuities, I made more money those two & 1/2 years than I ever did in a similar period working as a cook elsewhere), and finally got back to cooking when one of the cooks left.
We have a new server here at the convention center who looks younger than my not-quite-15 niece. She’s 20.
There exist union protected restaurant jobs in the USA? Never heard of that before. Wow. That’s generally an industry in my experience that tries to do everything it can to avoid such associations. But I haven’t worked in restaurants everywhere, just in VA, OH, KY and IN, so…maybe things are different elsewhere.
Technically, I work for a hotel. The hotel has a restaurant, and also contracts to provide staff for the city convention center next door.
My union: http://www.unitehere.org
But yeah, there are restaurants and bars that are union shops.
The local news here in Phx. says they’re holding a new grand re-opening this weekend so everyone can see how wrong they are.
I bet Amy has depleted the inventory of bakeries for hundreds of miles around Scottsdale, then.
No, she clearly stated that the baked goods were made on premises by her. She’s not given me any reason to disbelieve that claim.
I believed her claim that she baked too until I saw the post about the “party” she threw with details about how she decided what to serve and how she created her lovely platters and baked goods with beautiful pictures of the food she “created”-all stolen from other sites. I’m still waiting for Martha Stewart Enterprises to realize she stole from them. Somehow, I get the idea that Ms. Stewart would not be too pleased.
From their apparent new facebook page:
If somebody is actually posting this on a fake facebook page I give them a lot of credit for reproducing the crazy so well.
Try the smoked chickenfish.
So yeah, that was … interesting. Amy has about the scariest eyes I’ve ever seen. A question: close to the end of the final confrontation, right before Gordon Ramsey tells them he’s not going to continue working with them, Amy turns to Sammy and says, “Can we talk about what we came here to speak about, please?” What do you think she meant? She had already talked about how attacked they’ve been and how the food is really great no matter what anyone (including Gordon Ramsey) says, and how everything is everyone else’s fault, so what was left?
Damn. I mean, those were some serious Bride of Frankenstein eyes.
There are plenty of clues—the large number of desserts in the display case, the small kitchen, the fact that no one was there early in the morning, Amy’s inability to cook simple dishes, the lying about the ravioli, etc.
Whoosh.