epic multi-media meltdown

[Rider]

Originally Posted by duovamp

Because he's brown and wealthy and sounds funny he must be a criminal.

Also because he steals little girls' money. Nukka's a legit hardass mufug.

Nah it's more because he repeatedly says he is a criminal throughout the episode.

[Trotskilicious]

as a member of the geto boys once stated: "Real gangstas don't flex nuts because real gangstas know they got 'em."

[Rider]

Yeah that's the other way you know this guy is not money laundering or doing anything with organized crime.

No one who is actually anyone sits down and brags about how much of a player they were in Vegas and how many chicks they had.

That's also my favorite crazy line of dialog that people miss. When talking about how much of a player he was and how he was surround by woman at one point Amy slips and says "How many woman WE had."

That's the part of the story I'm waiting to come out, what exactly this crazy blonde was doing when she met this guy.

The guy reeks of low level coke dealer who got chased out of town for being an idiot. I've known several like him.

[duovamp]

Referring to yourself as a gangster is a legal confession as far as I'm concerned.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

finally watched it. l. o. l.
roflmao wtf

[yo soy el mejor]

did you think it was funny?

[Rider]

Other Side of Amy’s Baking Company Controversy in Scottsdale To Soon Be Told



SCOTTSDALE, AZ. MAY 15, 2013 -- Amy’s Baking Company will host a Grand Re-Opening on Tuesday night, May 21, following unflattering portrayals on national television.



Customers will be able to decide who is correct: a famous celebrity chef or the marketplace that has supported the small, locally-owned business for six years.



When re-opened, a portion of proceeds will benefit a charity organized to bring awareness to cyber bullying.



Seating is limited. Reservations may be made by emailing sjones@rosemoserallynpr.com.



Diners will also have the opportunity to meet, and judge for themselves the character of owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo, who have devoted their lives to and earn their living from their small restaurant. The Bouzaglos have been married for 10 years, after Sammy emigrated from Israel.



The owners will likely be holding a press conference before the Grand Re-Opening and answer falsehoods depicted on a reality television show, including assertions that the restaurant confiscates tips from servers.



In fact, wait staff is paid $8-$14 per hour, two and half to nearly five times the standard hourly wage for servers.



Questions will also be answered about what happened to their Facebook page.



Amy’s Baking Company was recently featured on the hit PBS show “Check Please” and has received A+ reports from CBS 5 for kitchen preparedness.



“We are very upset by what has taken place, apologize about the acrimony that has ensued but now must fight back to save our business. We hope and believe much good can result from what has transpired. We ask the public to keep an open mind as we begin to tell our side of the story,” Samy Bouzaglo said.



For more details, please contact Michael Saucier.

They really don't get that customers are not tipping the owners when they tip.

[Trotskilicious]

gordon gave them an A+ for "kitchen preparedness" too, but the service, food, and general atmosphere was demonstrably lacking

[hnibos]

I wish I could be there for the grand re-opening.

[hnibos]

You know people are going to complain just to see a reaction.

[reprise85]

"The owners will likely be holding a press conference before the Grand Re-Opening and answer falsehoods depicted on a reality television show, including assertions that the restaurant confiscates tips from servers.

In fact, wait staff is paid $8-$14 per hour, two and half to nearly five times the standard hourly wage for servers."

Uh so yeah, they confiscate tips...

[yo soy el mejor]

quit being an online hater!

[Shallowed]

The waitress that got fired did an AMA on Reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...m_amys_baking/

[Trotskilicious]

[–]sweetbaconflipbro 2006 points 1 day ago
I drink a gallon of Haterade every day.

[–]pmhubb2 275 points 1 day ago
Gotta replenish those electrospites.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Shallowed

The waitress that got fired did an AMA on Reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...m_amys_baking/

easier view
http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comme...cipriano_from/

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

did you think it was funny?

yes

[Mo]

Apparently this Amy person is a convicted felon: She tried to take out a $30,000 loan with a false social security number.

It was probably one of her cat's.

[Rider]

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/n...by-new-pr.html

Amy’s Baking Company has canceled its Tuesday press conference and is no longer working with the well-known public relations company hired to handle the craziness that ensued after the Scottsdale restaurant was featured May 10 on “Kitchen Nightmares.”
Fox, the station that aired the celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant critique show, sent a letter last week to the restaurant threatening legal action, according to Rose+Moser+Allyn Public & Online Relations. That firm took on Amy’s as a client last week, but in their release today said it had opted to stop working for the restaurant past Tuesday.

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by Mo

Apparently this Amy person is a convicted felon: She tried to take out a $30,000 loan with a false social security number.

It was probably one of her cat's.

Prosecutors were just haters.

[JokeyLoki]

Originally Posted by Rider

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/n...by-new-pr.html

Amy’s Baking Company has canceled its Tuesday press conference and is no longer working with the well-known public relations company hired to handle the craziness that ensued after the Scottsdale restaurant was featured May 10 on “Kitchen Nightmares.”
Fox, the station that aired the celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant critique show, sent a letter last week to the restaurant threatening legal action, according to Rose+Moser+Allyn Public & Online Relations. That firm took on Amy’s as a client last week, but in their release today said it had opted to stop working for the restaurant past Tuesday.

Why would Fox threaten legal action?

Either way, LOL.

[Rider]

Originally Posted by JokeyLoki

Why would Fox threaten legal action?

Either way, LOL.

Because they sign agreements that they can never talk about the show.

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by Rider

“We are very upset by what has taken place, apologize about the acrimony that has ensued but now must fight back to save our business. We hope and believe much good can result from what has transpired. We ask the public to keep an open mind as we begin to tell our side of the story,” Samy Bouzaglo said.

hahaha this quote is priceless.
"the acrimony that ensued"

it's so obvious someone else wrote this and not the guy that went YU FUK ME I FUK YUO

[Order 66]

[Mo]

The co-owner of Amy’s Baking Company — a Scottsdale restaurant that has been the center of controversy ever since appearing on the culinary reality TV show “Kitchen Nightmares” 11 days ago — is facing deportation.
Salomon “Samy” Bouzaglo, who owns Amy’s Baking Company along with his wife, Amy, is involved in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement case to revoke his residency status, his lawyer said Tuesday. Scottsdale immigration lawyer David Asser said the case against his client started two years ago and was the subject of a removal hearing Monday.
Asser, speaking just hours before the Bouzaglos reopened their embattled restaurant, said he could not comment on the case. He also said Samy’s immigration case has nothing to do with the television show. In fact, Asser said, he has not even watched the episode that has earned his client celebrity status.
“I didn’t know they were going to go on (the show),” he said.
Amy’s closed in the wake of the “Kitchen Nightmares” episode, which aired on Fox on May 10 and showed the owners yelling and pushing customers, taking servers’ tips and firing one waitress on the spot, calling her a “poisonous, little viper.” People across the country took to Yelp, Facebook, Reddit and other websites to express their disgust with the Bouzaglos‘ actions after the show.
The Bouzaglos hope to turn around their business with a weeklong grand reopening that began uneventfully Tuesday. The restaurateurs said that they had more than 1,500 reservations for Amy’s this week and announced plans to donate 10 percent of the grand-opening proceeds to the Megan Meier Foundation, which raises awareness of cyberbullying.
On Tuesday, Amy’s opened to a thin crowd and began serving those holding reservations at 5 p.m., using security guards to prevent gawkers, media and others without reservations from entering. The restaurant had a sign saying its patio was closed for security reasons. The reopening appeared to be running without incident for the first wave of diners. Some onlookers showed up hoping to snag a reservation, but most were turned away. The nearby Pita Jungle restaurant appeared to be drawing more business than Amy’s.
Laurie Ferrere Vermillion, a Scottsdale blogger, was among the handful of people turned away in the restaurant’s first hour because she had no reservation. Vermillion had hoped to dine at the restaurant Tuesday despite discouraging reviews from her friends.
“My friends who have been (to Amy’s) said, ‘Don’t waste your money,’” said Vermillion, who has seen every episode of “Kitchen Nightmares” and was shocked by the show featuring the Scottsdale restaurant.
Leon Lucero, 19, said he was curious about Amy’s and was hoping to get a reservation at the restaurant Tuesday night.
“Maybe this is a new start for them, a new beginning,” said Lucero, a music major at Glendale Community College who said he expects food at the restaurant to have improved.
Annie Dutoit, 42, who was at a nearby coffee shop, said she had dined at Amy’s with her family five or six times in the past 18 months and generally had good experiences.
She said she was surprised at the way Amy and Samy were portrayed on “Kitchen Nightmares.”
“I don’t know if the editing was done to show horrible things,” Dutoit said.
A native of Switzerland, she said she has dined all over the world and considered Amy’s a decent restaurant. Amy did special orders for her children, making crepes for them, Dutoit said.
She said she was surprised to hear on the show that the servers did not get their tips and would not want to support a restaurant that did that.
“I would go back, but I want to know what the truth is” about Amy’s, said Dutoit, adding that she is not sure what to believe about what was shown on a reality TV show.
Tuesday’s reopening capped a tumultuous week for the owners of Amy’s.
The couple was supposed to hold a press conference Tuesday at the restaurant to give their side of the story about what happened on the “Kitchen Nightmares,” suggesting the broadcast was not an accurate depiction of their restaurant. The press conference was abruptly canceled on Monday.
A Scottsdale public-relations firm headed by Jason Rose explained in a news release that a law firm representing the producers of “Kitchen Nightmares” warned the Bouzaglos against making disparaging remarks about the show or its star, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Rose's firm announced on Monday that it no longer would be representing the Bouzaglos.
On Tuesday, Samy and Amy talked about their past records and indicated Samy had served time in prison before immigrating to the United States 13 years ago. Reached by phone as they drove to their restaurant Tuesday morning, Amy and Samy each tried to talk over the other -- interrupting, yelling and even cursing one another as the conversation continued.
“We both made mistakes in the past. We have done our time,” Amy said. “We can’t comment. We know God is with us.”
Samy said he could not talk about any past records but added he has not had any problems since immigrating to the U.S.
“The FBI knows all about me.... The IRS knows,” he said.
Samy said issues surrounding his immigration status were “a sensitive subject” that he did not want to talk about Tuesday.
But he indicated that he wanted people to know that he had nothing to hide.
“I want people to know about me,” he said. “But not today, not tomorrow. I have nothing to hide.”
Asser, the lawyer, said Samy is an Israeli citizen and was born in Morocco.
Amy, 40, and Samy, 63, live in Gold Canyon. Before coming to Arizona, they lived in Las Vegas. Amy also lived in Colorado and California.
Records show Amy has served time in federal prison and has a history of liens and judgments.
In 2003, Amy Bouzaglo pleaded guilty to misuse of a Social Security number when she applied for a $15,000 bank loan. At the time, her name was Amanda Bossingham. She spent about a year in prison beginning in 2008.
Records show that prior to her conviction, Amy faced four judgments in Colorado in 1998 and 1999 totaling about $14,000. She was also sued in Arizona in 2000 for $3,229. The judgments appear to have arisen from unpaid debts that were turned over to collection agencies.
She married Samy in 2004. Records show he is from Los Angeles, where he lived upon arriving in the United States. Records indicate he has no criminal convictions or civil judgments in the United States.
“I am perfectly clean,” he said.

The gift that keeps on giving.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

i still find it hard to believe this is real.

[duovamp]

Wow, saddest criminal history ever. Definitely a trustworthy, respectable woman. I'm sure she isn't using Samy at all.

[reprise85]

now im starting to feel bad for them

[Trotskilicious]

oh you're so nice

[reprise85]

i mean obviously they are crazy assholes and this is very entertaining but i guess they are people and this must really suck for them

[JokeyLoki]

Nah, fuck that. Bad behavior has consequences.