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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/21/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    Folks, this all makes me really miss Florent, Shopsins and other old school places that had quirky owners who still cared for their patrons and their staff even if they were idiosyncratic.

    That is what is dying in NYC. A-holes like this fill the gap... With B.S.
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    Image of Ernest Gonzalez Ernest Gonzalez
    11/21/09

    @SpyMagician: I miss Flo, Rio Mar, Hell, these were places that kept employees for a millenia. Probably cause they treated their staff with respect. This is a dying metropolis.
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    11/21/09

    @Ernest Gonzalez: Indeed. But I see the backlash against this asshat as a positive. People are starting to wake up to the fact that if you are going to pay to go out, you should do so at a place that is good and treats everyone well.
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    Image of CODiva CODiva
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    Clearly there are more effective ways to communicate with your staff, but few could be more entertaining than this --- except if you happen to work for the guy. I say the angriest staff member should post Vadim's favorite email address and let's give him more than his demanded quota of emails people. Know what I mean?
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    11/20/09

    In reply to Peanut Butter and Jelly Is the Body and Blood of Union-Busting Jesus
    I was always disappointed when my grandmother gave me Smuckers stock for birthdays and Christmas, but now I come to find out it's recession-proof and then some. Thanks, Gram! Sorry I was such a little ingrate.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    11/20/09

    In reply to Peanut Butter and Jelly Is the Body and Blood of Union-Busting Jesus
    It is peanut butter jelly time.

    If only we had an ear-wormy little jingle to celebrate this fact....
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    11/20/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: ahh! you beat me to this comment! :-)
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    Image of Brad Brown Brad Brown
    11/20/09

    In reply to Peanut Butter and Jelly Is the Body and Blood of Union-Busting Jesus
    As Gawker's token, heterosexual, Southern Baptist hillbilly, I have to say, "God damn, I love me some peanut butter. It's like manna from Cleveland."
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    Image of Maulleigh Maulleigh
    11/21/09

    @Brad Brown: I eat peanut butter on toast every single day. Every day.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/20/09

    In reply to Peanut Butter and Jelly Is the Body and Blood of Union-Busting Jesus
    The 40 year de-industrialization of this country is almost complete
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    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    All it takes is to send this guy's email address to a Scientology org saying he's interested in some orientation materials, and he'll be deluged with bullshit pamphlets for life. Deluged!
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    Paradou did get my email. The dude sends out emails all the times. Sometimes 2 or 3 times with corrections and such.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    Wow. Paradou has a listing on Citysearch.

    [newyork.citysearch.com]

    I bet Vadim depends a lot on the reviews.

    And here is the listing on Yelp!

    [www.yelp.com]

    And the Twitter handle

    www.twitter.com/paradou

    I wonder how Vadim would feel about the Gawker community having their input on these forums.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil?

    I read somewhere that 86% of the meat served in New York restaurants is actually rat.

    Of course, that's probably an urban legend. Restaurants could never get away with it, unless they mixed in a significant amount of chihuahua for flavor.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    I don't give my email address to just anyone who asks, especially a wait person. That is one jerkoff boss.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    If any of the waitstaff is reading this story, remember how easy it is to make up fake email addresses when that creepy person asks you to Friend them?
    Same solution here. You can always blame "those FUCKING LAZY DISRESPECTFUL ASSHOLE customers" for spoofing your boss' crappy-assed spamming attempts.

    Bonus points for tracking down random emails of people working at the NYC Booze Police, health inspectors and sites catering to underaged escorts likely monitored by the FBI, and inviting them to your boss' email-palooza.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    Jack Welch is running a restaurant?
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    Image of Jes St.Lawrence Jes St.Lawrence
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    Wow! How did Vadim know what I was going to think of him? Is he psychic or that other thing?
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    Image of katastic katastic
    11/20/09

    In reply to New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
    Well, this post is all over Yelp now. Nice job, Vadim!
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