a good read - Fianco chicago winston
Establishment: Fianco
Location: chicago southport
I worked here from open to close…I thought. We opened in may of last year and all went well Great reviews, tons of business, runner up for chicago’s best new restaurant of the year. The staff was overall solid with the exception of an opening consultant who was useless.
For the summer we were packed every night. Not surprisingly the fall came and business slowed. The owner, jerry, you know who you are, started sleeping with a waitress…yes you ,kate!! Each week as it slowed more and more all the servers were cut down to 4 then 3 then 2 shifts. But kate kept her 5 shifts a week despite a consensus that she was the worst server in the restaurant! When one of my co-workers called Kate out on her actions she was accused of stealing bye the owner. Brought to tears and had to quit.
When another server had issues with her he was as well accused of stealing and fired soon after.
If they were trying to cover up the fact that they were chub bumpin(they are both large) they were awful at it. They would get drunk and grind on each other and were dumb enough to leave a towel covering surveilence cameras overnight. Shirt buttons ripped of his shirt on the floor for the bus boy to find, along with a buttonless shirt in the office. COME ON!!
one night i sat at a table next to kate’s phone as a wasted(whats new)gerry psycho dialed here from the restaurant because he thought she left before he could get some nasty.
They were even caught making out once. Yea we all know!
btw kate he tried to sleep with another waitress!! HE DON’T LOVE YOU HO!
But here is where it gets evil. WE were all told in the 3rd week of january we were closing because he could not afford to stay open. Frustrating annoying but it happens right. About a week after we close i hear from a food rep and a wine rep that had both talked to jerry that he was infact not closing. He had to shut down for a min because as he put it. ”his kitchen was to expensive because they were, ya know. white.”
so in the worst economy in decades he laid off a dozen people who helped build his business to save a few bucks by taking advantage of people who he can pay less because they are not white I’m not sure which is more evil.
sad sad sob
oh yea he’s married. HI Kim winston
so it is reopening in march but beware!
just saw jerry with kate at the sox game a couple of weeks ago. at least their love outlasted the business.