Wall Street's revenge: Bankers boycott Mario Batali restaurants after celebrity chef compared them to 'Stalin or Hitler'
By Hannah Roberts
Last updated at 5:49 PM on 10th November 2011
Celebrity chef Mario Batali may have to eat his words.
The TV cook has unleashed the wrath of Wall Street, after comparing bankers with Stalin and Hitler.
Brokers
and financiers -and their expense accounts- are staging a mass boycott
of the top chef's top dollar restaurants, following his unwise outburst.
Angered: Celebrity chef Mario Batali has unleashed the wrath of Wall Street after comparing bankers with Stalin and Hitler
On Tuesday, the former Food
Network host, known for his trademark orange crocs said, 'So the ways
the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken
most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil
guys,' Forbes reported.
The
well rounded cook, who is close friends with Gwyneth Paltrow, unleashed
his tirade at the Time person of the year debate. Batali, the face of
new ABC show, The Chew, was arguing that the person of the year should
be not one individual but 'bankers', because of their enormous impact on
the entire world.
But Wall Street, not a
bunch known for their thick skin, reacted with hostility, taking to the
web and –naturally- to their Bloomberg terminals to denounce their
former favourite.
@joannapatali
tweeted: '@mariobatali good luck getting the people of zucotti park to
pay $100 for a plate of pasta', eater.com reported.
@alphaHedgie vented: 'Mario Batali forgot about the right side of his menus before opening his mouth and dining on his foot.'
Boycott: Brokers and financiers -and their
expense accounts- are staging a mass boycott of the TV chef's top
dollar restaurants including Babbos, right, following his unwise
outburst.
Celeb pals: The well rounded cook, who is close
friends with Gwyneth Paltrow, unleashed his tirade at the Time person of
the year debate
Others called for a boycott of Batali’s 20 restaurants including Manhattan bankers' staples Babbo, Del Posto, Otto and Lupa.
BATALI RESTAURANTS
New York
Babbo
Spotted pig
Bar Jamon
Casa Mono
Del Posto
Eataly
Esca
Lupa
Manzo
OTTO Enoteca Pizzeria
Spotted pig
Bar Jamon
Casa Mono
Del Posto
Eataly
Esca
Lupa
Manzo
OTTO Enoteca Pizzeria
Elsewhere
B and B Ristorante
Mozza2Go
Osteria Mozza
OTTO Enoteca Pizzeria
Pizzerai Mozza
Tarry Lodge
Tarry Market
Carnevino
Mozza2Go
Osteria Mozza
OTTO Enoteca Pizzeria
Pizzerai Mozza
Tarry Lodge
Tarry Market
Carnevino
Boycott batali and #bataligate trended briefly on Twitter this morning.
One
large bank cancelled all reservations at the chef’s restaurants, while
another sent a memo to all members of staff saying that expense receipts
from the restaurants will not be refunded, eat.com reported.
The Food Network host issued an apology yesterday through spokeswoman Pamela Lewy:
'To remove any ambiguity about my appearance at [Tuesday’s] Time Person
of the Year panel, I want to apologize for my remarks,' he wrote in an
e-mail statement.
1 comment:
Those Orange crocs aren't going to taste good for Chef Batali since he has his foot in his mouth...
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