SOMETHING’S COOKING AT THE KITCHEN
The Dish
It’s one thing to send emails loaded with hateful comments about restaurants. We get those a lot, and normally just hit delete-delete-delete.
But it’s another to send an email decorated with an animated icon of, well, a crazy ejaculating penis. Now that, friends, spells real hate.
Yet leaping-phallic-level hatred apparently is what creative correspondent Frank Nordby feels for Scottsdale’s Kitchen, which took over the former Dish space in Gainey Village five months ago. Even as we choke back our bile of disgust for the little anime character he bestowed upon us, we’ve got to give him props for some mighty fine computer work. As one of our industry friends commented, when we forwarded the masterpiece to him: “Very odd, but the spouting wien has a really cool afro!”
What’s got Nordby’s balls so bunched? Well, we’re not so sure, except that he’s got some pretty great anger for restaurant owner Mike Teel, saying, “How is Good Eats doing there in Scottsdale? Mike Teel isn’t selling anything edible. I know he tries to pass himself off as some savvy businessman, but in reality, he will always be the son of a thief….” (Good Eats Grocer was the operating name for the Kitchen, and also the name of a proposed location for the same concept in Teel’s hometown of Sacramento, Calif.).
We’re not going to get into the gory details here, but you can check out Nordby’s rant yourself, on his web site www.raleysexposed.com.
For the record, Teel is the former CEO of the Sacramento-based supermarket chain Raley’s, and is also the only grandson of Tom Raley, founder of the family-owned grocery empire. He was planning to debut Good Eats in Sacramento before the Scottsdale opportunity er, came up.
As Nordby proudly writes, “Here is my clever unfinished image of the soon coming ‘Big Eats’ here in Sacramento….”
But wait, there’s more! As responsible reporters, we wouldn’t torment Teel without multiple sources.
Nordby isn’t the only Teel-hater out there. We got another email back before the Kitchen’s February opening, accusing restaurant owner Teel of many things, including “a true and incredible story about his family’s fortune all being built by a fraud against one man with nine children.”
This from Leann Lopez, a self-proclaimed journalist with The Sacramento Reporter, who wrote: “I have been watching Mike Teel and the Good Eats adventure for quite some time. In my opinion his antics and failures in business are fit for the circus. He must have really felt the heat in Sacramento to move his business to Scottsdale, Arizona.”
She, too, found time to put together a juicy website (sadly, though, without any flocking body part art). You can read it for yourself at www.hungry4justice.com.
Says Lopez, “I would write this story if I could find anyone to print it, and then find a body guard who could protect my life.”
Well, Lopez, consider it printed.
As for the protection, you’re on your own. We’re not weighing in on this mess – it’s all just a little too, um, sticky, for our comfort.
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