Employees sue Bobby Flay over tips, overtime

I don't like him either.  Yikes

Wait a minute...Justin Timberlake owns a restaurant?  Ack, which one so that I can make a note to never go.

bunnybean:

What a douche.  It doesn't surprise me at all.  DH hates Bobby Flay, and always accuses him of having a cold sore, since he had one once on Iron Chef. 

That is hilarious.  I feel like I saw that episode because I can totally picture it.

1.  Why the Bobby Flay hatred?  I don't know anything about him.  Fill me in!

2.  It never ceases to amaze me that anyone remotely high profile thinks they can get away with stuff like this.  Willful FLSA violations = 3x damages.  Why take the risk?

EastSideFluffy:

bunnybean:

What a douche.  It doesn't surprise me at all.  DH hates Bobby Flay, and always accuses him of having a cold sore, since he had one once on Iron Chef. 

That is hilarious.  I feel like I saw that episode because I can totally picture it.

Haha, maybe he just has a raging case of herpes and we see it often!

bunnybean:

Ugh, I also hate that Throwdown show.  Like he has to go to some poor Mom & Pop place and try to best them?  What a douche!  Stop trying to give nice hard working people their comeuppance!

Cause it gives them publicity and he loses like 90% of the time?

Elizabeth81:

bunnybean:

Ugh, I also hate that Throwdown show.  Like he has to go to some poor Mom & Pop place and try to best them?  What a douche!  Stop trying to give nice hard working people their comeuppance!

Cause it gives them publicity and he loses like 90% of the time?

That's true.  But I thought the Texas chili woman was going to cry when they tied.  Her dreams, shattered, by Bobby "Cold Sore" Flay.

bunnybean:

Elizabeth81:

bunnybean:

Ugh, I also hate that Throwdown show.  Like he has to go to some poor Mom & Pop place and try to best them?  What a douche!  Stop trying to give nice hard working people their comeuppance!

Cause it gives them publicity and he loses like 90% of the time?

That's true.  But I thought the Texas chili woman was going to cry when they tied.  Her dreams, shattered, by Bobby "Cold Sore" Flay.

If it's her dream to beat him in a Texas chili throwdown, then that's kind of sad. I wonder how much her business went up after the episode aired. I know when he came to my neighborhood a few years ago, the place was the busiest it had pretty much ever been.

Yes, I may have had a dream that I was kicking his a$$ in a gravy-based Iron Chef, but that was an actual night-time dream. I have no such aspirations.

Don't lie, Elizabeth.  You want to beat Bobby!

I could never rock Iron Chef.  Not only do I not have the skills, but I fear the constant weird meats they have on their.  

Elizabeth81:

Well, given my upbringing, I tend to think I probably am better at making gravy-based foods than he is...

Mmm, gravy-based foods...

bunnybean:

Elizabeth81:

Well, given my upbringing, I tend to think I probably am better at making gravy-based foods than he is...

Mmm, gravy-based foods...

LOL.

I swear you're a midwestern Scandinavian girl at heart.

Elizabeth81:

bunnybean:

Elizabeth81:

Well, given my upbringing, I tend to think I probably am better at making gravy-based foods than he is...

Mmm, gravy-based foods...

LOL.

I swear you're a midwestern Scandinavian girl at heart.

Hehe.  I am Scandinavian (at least partially), and my mom's family (her grandparents and back) all lived in Iowa!  Our family still owns a farm in Farragut.  

First, LMAO at Bobby Flay having herpes.  Does this mean that he has had sex with someone?

is_it_over_yet?:

1.  Why the Bobby Flay hatred?  I don't know anything about him.  Fill me in!

Top Ten Reason Why ESF Hates Bobby Flay

1. He looks like a tool

2. He sounds like a tool when he talks

3. I don't think he can cook

4. He bores me, as everything he makes either has a tomatillo and/or chipotle in it

5. He went up against my favorite DC chef ever, Jose Andres, on Iron Chef, and watching him lose and Andres kick ass was soooo satisfying

6. Cold sores

7. Cold sores while cooking

8. He is on the Food Network every time I turn it on (well, him or Rachel Ray)

9. Once, his 5 Iron Chef submissions were just 5 ginormous steaks with different variations of tomatillo and chipotle oils smothered all over them

10. He might screw his waiters out of tips.

EastSideFluffy:

First, LMAO at Bobby Flay having herpes.  Does this mean that he has had sex with someone?

He's married to Stephanie March, the blonde DA from Law and Order.  (or one of them.  One of the blond DAs on one of the Law and Order shows.)  My *guess* is that they've had sex at least once, but it's LA, Hollywood, etc. so who knows?

You can thank my addiction to Law and Order and the Sunday Parade magazine bio that profiled her a month or two ago with the Flay trivia.  Not my love of Bobby Flay.  :)

TefLepOM:

I don't like him either.  Yikes

Wait a minute...Justin Timberlake owns a restaurant?  Ack, which one so that I can make a note to never go.

I Googled and found that Justin Timberlake owns a piece of "Southern Hospitality" in New York.  http://www.southernhospitalitybbq.com/about.asp

EastSideFluffy:

First, LMAO at Bobby Flay having herpes.  Does this mean that he has had sex with someone?

is_it_over_yet?:

1.  Why the Bobby Flay hatred?  I don't know anything about him.  Fill me in!

Top Ten Reason Why ESF Hates Bobby Flay

1. He looks like a tool

2. He sounds like a tool when he talks

3. I don't think he can cook

4. He bores me, as everything he makes either has a tomatillo and/or chipotle in it

5. He went up against my favorite DC chef ever, Jose Andres, on Iron Chef, and watching him lose and Andres kick ass was soooo satisfying

6. Cold sores

7. Cold sores while cooking

8. He is on the Food Network every time I turn it on (well, him or Rachel Ray)

9. Once, his 5 Iron Chef submissions were just 5 ginormous steaks with different variations of tomatillo and chipotle oils smothered all over them

10. He might screw his waiters out of tips.

 

See, this is why I hate Rachael Ray.  I never watch the Food Network, but dang if she ain't on everytime I flip through the channels. Plus, I was given a couple of her cookbooks and I think the recipes are crap. 

yes, he is married to Stephanie March (as a previous poster mentioned) - She's a lovely girl. I had always liked him - but he's been a cocky jerk more and more - so I'm less enamored  with him than I had been in the past.

I am not sure what she was thinking with this dress. Ick!

Aanc:

yes, he is married to Stephanie March (as a previous poster mentioned) - She's a lovely girl. I had always liked him - but he's been a cocky jerk more and more - so I'm less enamored  with him than I had been in the past.

I am not sure what she was thinking with this dress. Ick!

Ahhhh...this explains the random Bobby Flay L&O appearance a couple years ago.  That sperm stealing episode.  He was one of the quasi-celebrity cameos playing a sperm theft victim.  After that episode I always wondered if he actually was a total douche or if they asked him to play one on TV.  And I actually like his food.  (I might have a chipotle pepper addiction)

he was on a sperm stealing episode of L&O?

ew.

I like him because he's not afriad to throw a giant slab of red meat on the grill and serve it with a big glass of red... and few things make me happier. LOL.

bunnybean:

Ugh, I also hate that Throwdown show.  Like he has to go to some poor Mom & Pop place and try to best them?  What a douche!  Stop trying to give nice hard working people their comeuppance!

This. I liked him until I saw a few episodes of Throwdown.

Aanc:

he was on a sperm stealing episode of L&O?

ew.

I like him because he's not afriad to throw a giant slab of red meat on the grill and serve it with a big glass of red... and few things make me happier. LOL.

yeah...def. one of their stranger episodes.