It's been just a less than a month since my last post, so I'll try to make a good one.
I've been watching back episodes of Kitchen Nightmares on Netflix and heard of Jack's on Waterfront (now known as Brownies) in the lovely city of Saint Clair Shores, MI. A city I once was a resident of and wish to be a resident again. Sadly, the renting that I could afford is near the police station, and I'm not a fan of SCS cops. Living by the police station scares the hell out of me.
But anyways, this episode was shot in the winter of 2008, a time where I didn't have a full-time job and watching this made me fucking furious. I'll go there in a bit, but anywho, Jack's was owned by three musclemen, the one named Scott I've seen recently, but unsure where or when, but I've seen him before. And how it goes, well, they are failing and they serve fake crab. One of the owner's father works as the GM and fucks up a lot, and the poor head chef works with fucking dickheads.
Mr. Ramsay does what he needs to do, including getting fish caught from the frozen Lake St. Clair and with a few fuck-ups and Scott going in the cook line screaming, Jack's becomes a success until Dec 2010 when (according to a website) is when the sold the restaurant back to the original owners and some months after, they turned into Brownies, where I went to the memorial service for my friend Allan Beasinger who sadly passed away in Feb 2012.
RIP Allan B. (80-12)
However, going back to what pissed me off about Jack's is how the kitchen was ran. The kitchen had a head chef named Aaron who is trying to get his staff on the same page but his words fall on deaf ears. Perhaps the folks at FOX was pushing it to be more dramatic, however, I kept feeling sorry for the poor guy. He was trying to run the kitchen while people are fucking around, including the GM himself. This episode was shot in Feb of 08 from the info I got. I was working part-time and I was looking for something to add on to it while dwelling away in a roommate house. And to see the mofos to work full-time to just fuck around, including a GM getting paid $100,000/year to fuck up constantly?
It's all in the past, but that's bullshit.
I do hope that Aaron is on to greener passages. That guy surely doesn't deserve that shit.
"I've just created a new board game for Muslims called 'Atrocity'.
It's just like Monopoly except you start with the buildings on the board."
~ Hollywood Allan (not to be confused with the previous Allan I've mentioned)
