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Broxi
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03-11-2004

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Scorpio.... I could not agree with you more. Every word you said is exactly how I felt as I was typing it up.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 7:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for spoiling. I am confused..nothing really was settled??? We don't know how it ends??? I feel cheated!!!

Broxi
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03-11-2004

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 7:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think those of us who watched all season... and even those of you who were pre-empted... feel the same way. But yes Texannie the very end was the what was in the captions that I listed above.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 11:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What is page six?

Upstate
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01-16-2004

Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 5:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
page six is the gossip page of what all is happening with the movers and shakers.

Scorpiomoon
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06-06-2002

Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 8:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pamy: Check out Page Six here.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Upstate and Scorpio!

Woofy
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08-09-2001

Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Slight misunderstanding repeated twice a. Jeff offered to sell his portion "for what he had invested." He offered to buy Rocco off for "a couple hundred thousand dollars."

Broxi
Member

03-11-2004

Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 4:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jeff had 2 offers on the table. He offered to sell his {Jeffreys} shares to Rocco for a couple Hundred Thousand bucks OR Rocco could sell Jeffrey his {Roccos} shares... {which I would assume would be for the same amount although Jeffrey did not say how much he would pay Rocco.}

Demeter
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08-05-2001

Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 4:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I understood that Geoffrey was "suggesting" he could sell out to Rocco, OR, the other alternative was that for "a couple hundred thousand dollars" Rocco would go away.

Essentially, Rocco did not put any actual money into the restaurant. Geoffrey financed the deal. By paying Rocco the 200,000 he would be buying the name and taking over full management etc.

Rocco, didn't financially own anything to sell, but he could buy out Geoffrey if he wanted to (which, is unlikely, as it didn't appear Rocco had that kind of money).

Broxi
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03-11-2004

Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Demeter you could be right since no one really knows what the full story is. But I do believe that Rocco must own some shares as he is a partner in the venture. He may not have put the cash up but I would not doubt that shares were given to Rocco when they first set this whole mess up.

It comes down to.... Who will win the Battle for the Restaurant...{para-phrasing the Iron Chef} ending} I think Jeffrey should have hired one of the Original Iron Chefs...they could bring their cooking here like Morimoto has done.

Tobor7
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07-19-2002

Monday, June 07, 2004 - 2:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a let down the last show was. Most of it totally manufactured.

Like the chef from Fla would really close his place and move to NYC?

The employees ice skating? Who cares.

A wrap up with 2 titles over black?

Pathetic.


Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 11:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK I want to say where I found this story, but I"m not sure EXACTLY how to cite properly, so I'll paste the story, and the link. Hopefully that's enough...


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&e=1&u=/ap/20040609/ap_en_tv/tv_chef


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Judge Lets DiSpirito Enter Restaurant

Tue Jun 8,11:01 PM ET Add Entertainment - AP to My Yahoo!


By SAMUEL MAULL, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - A judge gave television chef Rocco DiSpirito permission Tuesday to enter the restaurant that bears his name so he could take photographs of himself for a cookbook to be published this summer.

DiSpirito had to get a court order because China Grill Management, a group of financial backers who say they own Rocco's 22nd Street restaurant, sued him over management of the eatery and barred him from entering.


The chef, who claims he is part-owner of the restaurant, tried to enter Rocco's Tuesday morning for the photo shoot but was stopped. A China Grill lawyer immediately sought a court order to bar DiSpirito permanently.


The lawyer, Laurence Kaiser, argued that in recent months the chef has stolen restaurant property and assaulted its manager.


DiSpirito's lawyer, Stephen Hayes, denied the allegations.


State Supreme Court Justice Ira Gammerman signed an order that let DiSpirito enter Rocco's on Tuesday afternoon and use it as a setting for photos for the book, "Rocco's Italian American Cooking." He ordered DiSpirito to put $500 in escrow to cover any damage he might cause while there.


The judge's order bars DiSpirito from entering Rocco's at any other time without court permission until the legal fight with his financial backers over ownership and control of the restaurant is resolved.


DiSpirito's financial backers sued the chef in February, saying he mismanaged Rocco's and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. They say they put up $3 million for the Italian eatery, the site and subject of NBC's reality series "The Restaurant."


Instead of the restaurant being the critical and financial success they expected, the investors say, "The quality of the food and service has been widely criticized" and Rocco's has lost "in excess of $600,000."


Meanwhile, China Grill filed suit Tuesday against QVC, the home shopping television show, alleging that DiSpirito had "diverted and stolen" nearly $12,000 worth of food and beverages in March for a QVC luncheon.


China Grill's court papers accused QVC of colluding with DiSpirito, who sells products on the show. Court papers say QVC did not pay Rocco's and has not accounted for the cost of the luncheon.


That lawsuit, separate from one already filed by China Grill against DiSpirito, does not name the chef as a defendant. It seeks $25,000 for breach of contract and $11,948 for goods and services provided at the luncheon.


A telephone operator at QVC's corporate headquarters in West Chester, Pa., said no one was available to comment on the lawsuit.




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Scorpiomoon
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06-06-2002

Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 1:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Rocoo, Rocco, Rocco...you should have just taken the check.

Man, Jeffrey is like a freakin' bulldog. He is not easing up on Rocco at all.

If there was any "reality" to the show, you were always left with the impression people went to Rocco's to see Rocco. Well, if he isn't legally allowed to be there, I'm guessing the place will end up closing pretty damn fast.

And maybe that's what Jeffrey wants--cut his losses, close down the place and move on. I don't blame him.

Thanks for the article, Eeyoreslament. :-)

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Finally got to see the finale last night. Our station ran it at midnight! (it was pre-empted when Reagan died).
Loved how Rocco's italian friend told him he looked homeless.
Thought the shrink was interesting in her insight that Rocco might know he's failing so he wants to fail spectacularly.
I wish that could cut a deal where Rocco gets to do all the glad handling and Jeffrey runs the restaurant but Rocco's ego is too big for that.
He should have taken the check.

Woofy
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08-09-2001

Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 11:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Rocco is really looking terrible. Here is the cover of one of my local newspaper's "U" section that was published today. Rocco not only looks bloated, he looks like he hasn't slept in weeks and that he's been hitting the cooking sherry.

Sheesh!Rocco Promoting his new cookbook

Ladybug007
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08-13-2000

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 5:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ny post page 6

June 25, 2004 -- The feisty food fight over "The Restaurant" got even slop pier yesterday, with reality-show chef Rocco DiSpirito asking a judge to toss the 22nd Street eatery into re ceivership. DiSpirito and his business partners at Roc co's on 22nd are suing each other, with each side claiming the other has run the place into the ground. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ira Gammerman granted a first-round victory to financier Jeffrey Chodorow, barring DiSpirito from the premises earlier this month. The lat est round amounts to DiSpirito demanding in court papers that Chodorow be kicked out of the foundering eatery instead, except to pay the bills. "My physical exclusion from the restaurant is potentially devastating to the restaurant, because I am an acclaimed chef and a local and national celebrity and my presence there has historically been a tre mendous draw for thousands of patrons and customers," DiSpirito bloviates in papers. Chodorow counters that DiSpirito has no say in what happens at Rocco's, since he hasn't put a penny into the place. The financier also says DiSpirito stole $15,000 in food and cash — an accusation the chef calls "preposterous."


Woofy
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08-09-2001

Friday, June 25, 2004 - 1:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm sorry but DiSpirito has delusions of adequacy!

Scorpiomoon
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06-06-2002

Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 12:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm almost feeling bad for Rocco. Before this whole mess he had a nice reputation for being a hot, young chef. As far as I know, he had respect. Now, this whole thing with the show and its aftermath have made him into a joke.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's unfortunate that those two guys were unable to work together. In a way it could have been an ideal combination. One with business financial knowledge to watch the bottom line; the other with good public relations skills. Sometimes opposites compliment each other and benefit from collaborations and other times they can't function together. Too bad.

Ocean_islands
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 8:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Judge bars Rocco DiSpirito from Rocco's Restaurant

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A New York judge Tuesday barred TV chef Rocco DiSpirito from the site of his reality TV show "The Restaurant," and told his financial backer he could walk away because the place was operating at a loss.

"I don't think you are obligated to run a restaurant that's losing money," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ira Gammerman told DiSpirito's partner, Jeffrey Chodorow.

At the end of a two-day hearing, the judge also issued the preliminary injunction barring DiSpirito from entering Rocco's on 22nd Street, where the show was filmed before being taken off the NBC broadcast network and moved to cable TV.

The judge ordered both sides to return to court on August 31 for the start of a trial to determine, among other issues, if a partnership ever existed between the two men, and if so, did DiSpirito breach their agreement.

In seeking a restraining order against DiSpirito, Chodorow had asked the judge for permission to sell the restaurant and end their stormy relationship.

Chodorow's lawyer, Laurence Kaiser, indicated to the judge that his client may sell the restaurant or re-open it under a different concept by the end of August.

"We may even have guest chefs," Kaiser said outside the courtroom when pressed for details about a new restaurant.

The legal food fight between DiSpirito and financier Chodorow turned ugly earlier this year when both men filed lawsuits accusing each other of running the restaurant into the ground.

In filing his $6 million countersuit against Chodorow, DiSpirito charged his partner with cooking the books.

Chodorow, who owns seven restaurants in the New York City area and over 20 nationwide, said he invested $4 million in the venture and lost another $700,000 along the way.

The 37-year-old celebrity DiSpirito said during his testimony Tuesday that he was to have been paid $175,000 as the executive chef. He also said he owns 50 percent of the restaurant.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/07/27/leisure.restaurant.reut/index.html

Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the update, Ocean. IMO, Rocco is being idiotic he should have taken the money he was offered for the buyout.

Scorpiomoon
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06-06-2002

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
After giving some thought to the latest developments, I have to say, I feel sorry for Rocco's mom. She seemed to be the only one who truly cared about the place (or so it seemed). I hope Rocco pulls his head out of his butt, opens a nice, cozy place somewhere and let's his mom continue cooking and being in the public.

Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 2:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I totally agree, Scorpio. She deserves it.