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underpants

(183,019 posts) Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:10 PM Jan 2018

Guy Fieri charges $800 for New Years Eve bash and closes Times Square eatery the next day

Guy Fieri's zero-star Times Square restaurant closes after five years
http://ew.com/tv/2018/01/02/guy-fieri-times-square-restaurant-closes/

The following is a U.K. Daily Mail article which I think is supposed to be snarky (I think) and features the restaurants sign being oddly painted over from street level.

The New York restaurant scene lost a giant over the weekend with the closing of Guy's American Kitchen in Times Square.

It was a very sudden shuttering for the hugely profitable eatery, which in 2013 did $16 million in sales and was one of the top independently-owned restaurants in the city.

Eater reported that American Kitchen would be closing on December 31 just three days prior, with an $800-a-ticket New Year's Eve bash set as the final event at the restaurant to which Fieri licensed his name.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5229973/Fans-critics-Jonathan-Cheban-bid-long-Guy-Fieri.html#ixzz534jbiz12

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Guy Fieri charges $800 for New Years Eve bash and closes Times Square eatery the next day (Original Post) underpants Jan 2018 OP

Damn - thats even more than Donnie two scoops! dhol82 Jan 2018 #1

Yeah I couldn't get that into the subject line underpants Jan 2018 #2

This was announced days before, all over the headlines. Wiseman32218 Jan 2018 #3

Went out with a bang! Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #4

Blatant False Headline By EW - NOT Zero-Star SoCalMusicLover Jan 2018 #5

They were referring to his 2012 NY Times review... SeattleVet Jan 2018 #6

"Fieri licensed his name", sounds like he was running the same kind procon Jan 2018 #7

dhol82

(9,353 posts)

1. Damn - thats even more than Donnie two scoops!

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:17 PM

Jan 2018

He played the con all the way to the end.
Impressive!

underpants

(183,019 posts)

2. Yeah I couldn't get that into the subject line

Reply to dhol82 (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:19 PM

Jan 2018

Exactly what I thought.

Wiseman32218

(291 posts)

3. This was announced days before, all over the headlines.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:45 PM

Jan 2018

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)

4. Went out with a bang!

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:51 PM

Jan 2018

If the customers got their money's worth, who cares?

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)

5. Blatant False Headline By EW - NOT Zero-Star

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 09:11 PM

Jan 2018

It's Yelp rating is a 3. Not excellent, but very respectable.

All for the sake of an eye catching headline. I just can't stand that they need to spread false information.

SeattleVet

(5,484 posts)

6. They were referring to his 2012 NY Times review...

Reply to SoCalMusicLover (Reply #5)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 09:24 PM

Jan 2018

that one was zero stars. It was rather scathing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html

The only other zero-star review I remember in the Times was for Mama Leone's, not too long before they finally exited the scene. (They had been a very decent place, then went downhill for many years. The last time I ate there is was a pitiful shell of what it had once been.)

procon

(15,805 posts)

7. "Fieri licensed his name", sounds like he was running the same kind

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 10:30 PM

Jan 2018

of rebranding scam that Trump uses for hotels.

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