saucygirrl

Uzay, you pocketed 2 $50 dollar bills from a table, and did not include them into the tip pool. I, among others saw you do it. And its on tape. No negativity here....have another cocktail. If you and some friends pop in to to my bar, I'll "take care of you" p.s. the only person in the kitchen to get fired was the butcher, a week before we opened.

Uzay, you pocketed 2 $50 dollar bills from a table, and did not include them into the tip pool. I, among others saw you do it. And its on tape. No negativity here....have another cocktail. If you and some friends pop in to to my bar, I'll "take care of you"

It beats pimping, which is a no-no on eGullet. By the way, I don't think anyone is complaining about the incompetent staff in the restaurant, few of us have been to the restaurant. We're complaining about the incompetent wait staff on the show. We complain about what we know and what we see is what we know about the show. Indeed, what they show, is the show. If the show paints an unflattering picture of the restaurant, well I guess that means NBC is not an investor in the restaurant. No pimping? Then don't put up a link to a self- promoting web site (Not speaking to you of course)

Who is Shane that annoying guu screaming...and why?????

You can find Topher happy and healthy, back at work. Where you ask? You'll have to wait and see...

You gotta be the guy who said he hated people in his interview - that has line cook all over it. I like your style I was a line cook in the kitchen as well. I have opened three star restaurants before, working through floods, fires, and blackouts. However, I have never in my life been treated like such shit than at Roccos. Not only was the food on a par with a school cafeteria, there were no recipes, or menu for BOH. We spent a week experimenting at a "tasting", where Roccos 2 winged monkeys Carla Laille and Dave Coleman bitched and moaned eating dish after dish off paper plates. Whatever they asked for...it was "just not it. In Naples...it was more..." Ugh! Then pick up a pan and make it! Coming in at 9 am to recipe test 2 days before opening is not my idea of a good time. Rocco popped in and out, and ate if he was hungry. And yes, not once did he pick up a pan. Abusive place to work.....glad I am gonnnnne. Can't wait until the hoopla dies and those doors close...my prediction is late January.

I suspect it's the creative staff at NBC. Maybe one of them just got a bright idea for a reality show based on an Internet discussion board. Too bad they didn't think of it when sit coms were the rage. Speaking of NBC, I am so sure that Gideon's experience was nothing but happenstance. Rocco just "happened" to pass by, Mark Burnett just "happened" to find him outside and his five camera assistants just "happened" to be five minutes away. I.E. Survivorsucks.com. Hello. And Gideon just happens to be a cousin of Jeffery Chaderow....Hmmmm

Unfortunately, I am still there until my other job resumes in the fall. Got it. How much of the original front of house staff stuck around after the cameras stopped rolling? To answer your question, 4 of the original waitstaff are remaining. Everyone else quit or was fired. Gideon, Pete, both "let go". Uzay, who is a server by trade, was supposedly caught skimming $$$ of the tip pool, yet he was promoted to Captain.