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New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil [Hells Kitchen]
gawker.com - 11/20/2009
New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil [Hells Kitchen]
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Times are tough, and people are sat at home chewing bellybutton fluff instead of eating out or ordering in. What are restaurant owners doing? Some are not paying staff, and others are sending abusive...
New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil - Recessionomics
gawker.com - 11/20/2009
New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil - Recessionomics
— gawker.com — Times are tough, and people are sat at home chewing bellybutton fluff instead of eating out or... ordering in. What are restaurant owners doing? Some are not paying staff, and others are sending abusive emails calling them "fucking lazy motherfuckers." ... (more) New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil - Recessionomics

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Grub Street New York:  Paradou Owner Says Tirade Against Staff Was a Restaurateur's ‘Howl’

NY Post: News:  What the f@#$? Manhattan restaurant owner loses it over e-mail

Gothamist:  Restaurant Owner's Email to Staff Belongs in Tyrant Hall of Fame

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Paradou Owner Says Tirade Against Staff Was a Restaurateur's ‘Howl’
Grub Street New York — ... “The first casualties of this will be the people who all of these protesters are ‘defending.’ No thought is given to ‘the trickle-down,’ to use Ronald Reagan’s favorite expression.” As for the people who are vowing to shut Paradou down, Ponorvsky says, “These people have no sense of rightness or goodness.” By the way, if you want to be on Paradou’s mailing list — sign up at info@paradounyc.com! New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil [Gawker] Read more posts by Daniel ...

What the f@#$? Manhattan restaurant owner loses it over e-mail
NY Post: News — What's eating this restaurant owner? Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of Paradou, a restaurant in the Meatpacking district, bashed his staff in a profanity-laced e-mail tirade aimed at getting them motivated to collect e-mail addresses from customers. In the e-mail, obtained by the gossip site Gawker.com and posted this morning on their Web site, Ponorovsky called his workers "f----ing lazy motherf----ers." "WHAT THE F--- IS WRONG WITH YOU ASSH----?!?!?! How many times do we have to tell you how important it is that you collect e-mails,'" he wrote. "Every time we have a slow ...

Restaurant Owner's Email to Staff Belongs in Tyrant Hall of Fame
Gothamist — ... The email was forwarded to Gawker by an understandably disgruntled employee. But Ponorovsky doesn't see why everyone's so offended, and he sent out another email today ...

Harvard Crimson Publishes Most Entertaining Piece In Years
Guest of a Guest - NYC People, Places, Parties & Nightlife — As far as fiery emails go, The Harvard Crimson has a ways to go before it breaks the sass ceiling of, say, Meatpacking District restaurant owners. Not to mention Cornell IT employees. But these are fresh-faced (oh, Harvard, scratch that) students on the cusp of entering a quickly dying industry, so we’ll cut them some slack. It’s funny to see a bunch of student newspaper geeks, and Harvard student newspaper geeks at that, questioning the “social skills” of ...

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