Steak Frite: be warry
Establishment: Steak Frite
Location: Union Square
Staff at Steak Frite at Union Square is turning over rapidly. There is a reason for it, and that is the owner. He is crazy and spends his time in the restaurant screaming at and belittling staff, threatening to fire them for no or very little reason, and overall making everyone miserable. The Management is doing the best they can, but Andrew Silverman (owner) is too much…the staff is unhappy, the guest are unhappy, and there isn\’t a lot of money to be made ($100 is a good night for servers, $80 is good for the bartender). You have been warned. The date is Nov. 1, 2009~~
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I got hired at another Silverman restaurant and was hired to make over the place cuz his nephew was poorly running it. After I made changes, that the staff liked, he wouldn’t fire his overweight manager who did nothing, used the waitresses as his babysitters and would pull them off the floor, and then changed everything back to how it was originally. After missing 2 meetings with me, I walked out. The guy is a douche bag and I hope he gets everything coming to him. His biz partner Ross is an ass too.
Andrew Silverman is the biggest joke in the restaurant industry. After not paying his staff for 2 weeks (a regular occurence at his restaurants), this loony bin shut down Steak Frites last Labor Day weekend for renovations- without alerting his GM or Chef! The staff showed up as usual & were informed by the Chinese construction company “Closed, no work today.” When the Chef went in to see what the hell was going on, he found someone in his walk-in freezer who said that he was the new chef! Silverman the A**hole didn’t return any phonecalls to his chef & managers, & instead posted an ad on CL saying that Steak Frites was hiring an all new staff for its ‘re-opening.”
The punchline is that Lucy Brownes & City Lobster (Silverman joints) have already declared bankruptcy, & soon enough Steak Frites will soon too…
Take the owner out back, beat the crap out of him.