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This couple (esp woman) is absolutely bat-dropping crazy. **TRAINWRECK continues!**

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Hilarious that reservations need to be made thru their pr agent. They are probably going to carefully screen everyone that wants to visit the reopening to make sure they will be friendly voices.
 
ElFenix said:
if you're willing to part with $20 it could be good entertainment.
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In the webcomic QuestionableContent, the coffee shop is popular specifically because of the abusive behavior of the staff to the customers. This seems like a weird real world version of that comic idea.

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The way she behaves makes me think "cocaine is a hell of drug!" This whole thing is highly entertaining though.

One theme that permeates these restaurant rescue type shows, is the people never have any experience as restaurateurs. They come from other walks of life and often invest their retirement savings into opening a restaurant because "it is a long time dream." They invariably suffer from Dunning-Kruger about their cooking and management skills. This couple is well beyond that. And all the rumors of money laundering and such kind of make sense. That woman is the queen bitch of the universe. And her sugar daddy is certainly nefarious.
 
DAPUNISHER said:
The way she behaves makes me think "cocaine is a hell of drug!" This whole thing is highly entertaining though.

One theme that permeates these restaurant rescue type shows, is the people never have any experience as restaurateurs. They come from other walks of life and often invest their retirement savings into opening a restaurant because "it is a long time dream." They invariably suffer from Dunning-Kruger about their cooking and management skills. This couple is well beyond that. And all the rumors of money laundering and such kind of make sense. That woman is the queen bitch of the universe. And her sugar daddy is certainly nefarious.
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There was a shady real estate transaction where Samy bough property from the original owner, sold it to some one (maybe someone he knew) for double the profilt, then it was sold or transfered to Amy for near the original lower price... its somewhere in the Las Vegas real estate archives, a blogger found it...
 
Destiny said:
There was a shady real estate transaction where Samy bough property from the original owner, sold it to some one (maybe someone he knew) for double the profilt, then it was sold or transfered to Amy for near the original lower price... its somewhere in the Las Vegas real estate archives, a blogger found it...
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Thanks for the update. This just keeps getting better and better.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bella/2013/05/amy_baking_company_jason_rose.php This douche nozzle jumping into the fray should make it an even bigger spectacle.

If they reopen as planned it will be chaos. And if she has a shred of sanity left, she will have a professional in the kitchen making the food. But I suspect this is reaching critical mass, and will implode soon enough.
 
DAPUNISHER said:
The way she behaves makes me think "cocaine is a hell of drug!" This whole thing is highly entertaining though.

One theme that permeates these restaurant rescue type shows, is the people never have any experience as restaurateurs. They come from other walks of life and often invest their retirement savings into opening a restaurant because "it is a long time dream." They invariably suffer from Dunning-Kruger about their cooking and management skills. This couple is well beyond that. And all the rumors of money laundering and such kind of make sense. That woman is the queen bitch of the universe. And her sugar daddy is certainly nefarious.
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That's not always the case at all. I would say half or more of the Kitchen Nightmares episodes involve people that have had a restaurant for over a decade. The theme, if anything, is people stop caring about what they do and fall into a depression/rut. Gordon comes in, freshens up things, and if they stick with it they succeed.

Unfortunately a lot of them fall back to their old ways, or they're too damaged to succeed and end up closing anyway.
 
Fritzo said:
That's not always the case at all. I would say half or more of the Kitchen Nightmares episodes involve people that have had a restaurant for over a decade.
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And often their history before that was another line of work. And they jumped right into a restaurant. No history of working in restaurants before that. And no professional training. And they have drained their 401k and such just to keep the doors open for that long. Certainly there are those that have just let the long time family biz go to hell. But you do not often see anyone professionally trained or that came up working in the front or back of good restaurants on the show. Because if they did, they would not need the basic help provided.

I have read the speculation about how some do it just for the remodel and publicity, but that is specious reasoning.
 
there are some rumors floating around that Sammy is money laundering and is why he takes the tips and why nobody else can touch the point of sale system.
 
OutHouse said:
there are some rumors floating around that Sammy is money laundering and is why he takes the tips and why nobody else can touch the point of sale system.
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I doubt that's why PoS system isn't touched by employees.

Probably more of a batshit crazy control freak case.

Why would money laundering have anything to do with the register? They can't be that dumb.
 
Fritzo said:
That's not always the case at all. I would say half or more of the Kitchen Nightmares episodes involve people that have had a restaurant for over a decade. The theme, if anything, is people stop caring about what they do and fall into a depression/rut. Gordon comes in, freshens up things, and if they stick with it they succeed.

Unfortunately a lot of them fall back to their old ways, or they're too damaged to succeed and end up closing anyway.
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http://kitchennightmares.bangpipe.com/the-master-list/
 
Zeze said:
I doubt that's why PoS system isn't touched by employees.

Probably more of a batshit crazy control freak case.

Why would money laundering have anything to do with the register? They can't be that dumb.
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Probably so the owner can cover up the tip money via money laundering (oh look at this - $1200 in tips today, even though there were only 20 customers!)
 
OutHouse said:
there are some rumors floating around that Sammy is money laundering and is why he takes the tips and why nobody else can touch the point of sale system.
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Yeah, some guy posted his hypothesis about that and it caught fire. Some of his points are tenuous at best, but overall a valid theory. The info about the potentially shady land deal, adds fuel.

It was also pointed out by some that keeping the tips is illegal. And at least one former employee states they were paid server minimum when working there. Which was approx. $3.25hr at the time of employment. If they can prove that, it will shoot a hole in the $8-$14hr claim. The argument over 50 employees and "prove it!" being ended by Crazy Samy admitting it was actually over 100 in the time period, demonstrates that he has compartmentalized what crazy Amy knows about the biz.
 
Zeze said:
I doubt that's why PoS system isn't touched by employees.

Probably more of a batshit crazy control freak case.

Why would money laundering have anything to do with the register? They can't be that dumb.
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im not saying its true. just speculation.


but there is some odd shit going on with how that place is run. it has top notch decorating and signage, the strip mall where its located looks like prime location with high rent. plate after plate gets thrown in the trash. there is no way they are financially sound enough to support rent, payroll, food, waste, utilities, repair, and all the nickle and diming that happens in a restaurant, and nobody but the owner can touch the register and the owners take the cash tips...

if the IRS wasn't so busy right now, i bet they would find some really intersting things in ABC's books.
 
OutHouse said:
im not saying its true. just speculation.


but there is some odd shit going on with how that place is run. it has top notch decorating and signage, the strip mall where its located looks like prime location with high rent. plate after plate gets thrown in the trash. there is no way they are financially sound enough to support rent, payroll, food, waste, utilities, repair, and all the nickle and diming that happens in a restaurant, and nobody but the owner can touch the register and the owners take the cash tips...

if the IRS wasn't so busy right now, i bet they would find some really intersting things in ABC's books.
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Here is the hypothesis about the money laundering -
If this place isn't a money laundering operation, I don't know what is.

1. Sammy screamed 'Don't call the police'. This was one of the only things he really stood up to his wife on. I think Sammy is involved in serious criminal shit and he doesn't want Johnny Law to come poking around and causing any disruptions to the money losing business here. I’m not sure if the fact that they don’t trust anyone else to run the place has anything to do with that, or whether they’re just nuts. If they were smarter, I feel like they could let it run itself. See point #4 for a possible reason for that.

2. The place is clearly hemorrhaging money. All those fresh veggies come at a huge premium in Arizona and no one is buying them since no one eats there. This is a tactic to inflate food costs and make the on-the-books profits (from crime) a bit more believable. You have high prices and ‘quality ingredients’ and on its face, it looks like a classy place dealing in high-quality, high-margin food that’s doing very, very well. In reality, they’re buying top-dollar with dirty money and selling nothing.

3. Putting all of that money into the facilities, kitchen equipment and the dining area is a way to build tangible equity in a property, paid for by dirty money, of course. This is similar to how house flipping has become the new Las Vegas for cleaning dirty money. Even if you put 100k of criminal money into a house and sell it for 80k, you still made 80k in clean money (and the write off for the business loss – more clean money). And what you ask is Sammi’s other ‘legitimate’ business enterprise? Custom home building. Same fucking principle: Build equity in something tangible with dirty money, sell it (at a loss or profit, who gives a fuck) and money comes clean out the other side.

4. The compensation structure for servers is just another money cleaning tactic. The money from tips never hits the books. It’s pocketed immediately and spent on gas, food, clothes etc. All the sorts of stuff that is bought in a day that isn’t traced and is used up (burned, eaten, thrown out etc.) when it’s done. You keep the clean, un-traceable cash coming in (tips), and then pay out more money in wages to lose money so that the money that comes in from crime doesn’t make the place look TOO profitable. If they weren’t so wretched and money hungry they would just let the girls work on tips like most people, but they’re so narcissistic, deluded and downright evil that they think they’re entitled to it and don’t know when to stop.

5. They are mean to people because well, they’re nuts, but also because Sammy doesn’t actually give much of a fuck if many people come in or not. If a few quiet, agreeable customers come in and eat, so be it. For Sammy, this place is an annoyance. He hates being there and knows it’s a waste of his legitimate criminal time to have to deal with it. He was just stupid and married a crazy ‘trophy wife’ who thinks she can cook and the less he has to do in a day in terms of dealing with angry customers, the better. Hell, he might have married her BECAUSE he thought she was stupid enough to believe she’s making money when no one comes in. To me that’s why a lot of that bad food is just thrown away; otherwise she gets crazy and causes more disruptions to the fence.

6. Ever wonder why he doesn’t know how to use the POS system, but insists on using it? Because one day one of those girls is going to see ALL of these tables and checks listed on there that never actually came in, and then she’ll ask why. Since she knows more about the system than he, she won’t buy the lie he tells her. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a small part of the reason for the staff turnover: They don’t want anyone knowing too much.

7. Because the thing is, at the end of the day, he can just make up checks and bills and act like all these customers came in and paid them lots of money for food, but just as long as the place isn’t completely empty all the time and then reporting big profits, there shouldn’t be any huge red flags so as long as the taxes keep coming into the IRS and the place keeps a quiet reputation. But SOMEBODY just had to call Ramsey and blow the whole cover….

EDIT: Everyone is asking how I reconcile them going on tv for help. _____________________________

1. Remember, Amy thinks her problem is not her food, their shared attitude, their sparse staff or her creepy eyes. It's internet haters. That's it. She is perfect in every way. She feels the downturn in her business is due solely to bad publicity. For people with such grandiose self-images, the only way to deal with this would be to go to the very top and have the biggest chef in the world come and say that their food is amazing. Bad publicity problem solved. Note too, those awesome desserts she fed Ramsey, that he really liked, were all store bought. But she claimed they were hers. She does not care about the food in that sense, as she's willing to lie about that as the first step to the good publicity that she thinks is the silver bullet to fixing what she feels to be unjustifiably tarnished public image.

2. From Sammy's perspective, I think he's willing to take the small risk of having the cover blown on any laundering operation to sustain a good front and, like his wife, to try to, in his mind, restore the deservedly good reputation the place should rightly have. If he can somehow appease his wife, who I believe has him convinced she can cook, and keep the restaurant full so he doesn't need to butcher the receipts so much, he might be able to stop doing shady shit altogether or at least have a better front. Then, if the restaurant is running well, he can leave it for someone else to operate and he can stay home and watch Scarface 50 times.

Essentially, I think HIS willingness to take this risk is rooted in their shared delusions about their own self values and they are willing to take the most drastic of measures to keep them as high as possible.
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Here si the petition to have them investigated - http://www.change.org/petitions/the-us-department-of-labor-and-the-wage-and-hour-division-whd-investigate-amy-s-baking-company-bakery-boutique-bistro-in-scottsdale-az
 
Man... I would hate to be them right now. Seems like the entire populace of the internet wants to take them down. You can't stop the internet hate machine. But then again, it seems these folk almost deserve it.
 
Heh people and the idea he is money laundering. I would say he is stuck dealing with an insane woman and doesnt know how to handle her and has too much money for his own good. So he continues to fund this failed business and shield her from its failure. They are both confessed control freaks so he wont let anybody have any control over the POS. I bet this includes the wife should she find out it loses money hand over fist.

He didnt want the police called because who calls the police on people trying to leave their restaurant. It was about the only sane thing these two did the entire episode.

These two scream "not dealing with their issues" written all over. This includes telling the wifey her dream is nothing but a failure and time to move on.

I guess the question I have is why? Why would he put up with this shit? If it is the sex. A professional escort would be cheaper and better looking. And best of all her crazy goes away after paying her. If it is the personality of Amy. He must have a lot of his own issues to think her behavior is normal.
 
The part where the customer sent back a pizza and Amy says she puts red pepper flakes in it to hurt him, did this happen a lot? Did she do anything else to food that you know about to slight the customer?
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i forgot about that part. that should be ground alone for the health dept to shut the place down. a chef spiking somebody's food to hurt him is bullshit.
 
Genx87 said:
Heh people and the idea he is money laundering. I would say he is stuck dealing with an insane woman and doesnt know how to handle her and has too much money for his own good. So he continues to fund this failed business and shield her from its failure. They are both confessed control freaks so he wont let anybody have any control over the POS. I bet this includes the wife should she find out it loses money hand over fist.

He didnt want the police called because who calls the police on people trying to leave their restaurant. It was about the only sane thing these two did the entire episode.

These two scream "not dealing with their issues" written all over. This includes telling the wifey her dream is nothing but a failure and time to move on.

I guess the question I have is why? Why would he put up with this shit? If it is the sex. A professional escort would be cheaper and better looking. And best of all her crazy goes away after paying her. If it is the personality of Amy. He must have a lot of his own issues to think her behavior is normal.
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Yeah I think it's a hell of a lot simpler and makes more sense that he's just a control freak about the PoS system and whatnot, instead of money laundering. Gotta love people that come up with such a theory based on clips from a TV show. Reminds me of 9/11 Truthers and other conspiracy idiot types.
 
I just watched the episode again. Just cant help myself. The difference between Sammy on the night of the meltdown and the next day when they have the last sit down is actually comical. The guy looks like he had the life sucked right out of him lol. A shell of his former self from the night before.

And they just cant help themselves.
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/regio...d-re-opening-to-address-social-media-meltdown

lmao like I said earlier. They have to be right. Now they are going to challege Gordon Ramseys opinion on the place. I think camera crews need to be there to witness this even bigger meltdown when people tell her the food sucks ass.
 
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