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Mario Batali Apologizes for Comments Comparing Bankers to Hitler, Stalin; And likes to confiscate employee's tips
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Mario Batali Apologizes for Comments Comparing Bankers to Hitler, Stalin

Celebrity chef and restaurant owner Mario Batali apologized for comparing bankers to Hitler and Stalin, while Wall Street executives reacted with angry comments and calls for a boycott.

"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," Batali said. "They're not heroes, but they are people that had a really huge effect on the way the world is operating."

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Mario said his upper end restaurants have an average price per meal of $160 - and his low end pizza average tab is $16 per person.

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Didn't some other guy do a comparison with Hitler not long ago? :think:

And here Mario goes one better with Stalin.
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Nov 10 2011, 04:20 PM
Mario said his upper end restaurants have an average price per meal of $160 - and his low end pizza average tab is $16 per person.

$160 and he is cheering on the OWS crowd and insulting his potential wealthy costumers?
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Ever hear of a show called The Chew? It airs on ABC. Any guesses on who appears on that show? And doesn't ABC own ESPN?
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Nov 10 2011, 04:38 PM
Baldo
Nov 10 2011, 04:20 PM
Mario said his upper end restaurants have an average price per meal of $160 - and his low end pizza average tab is $16 per person.

$160 and he is cheering on the OWS crowd and insulting his potential wealthy costumers?
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chef-batali-agrees-5-25m-143705920.html

Chef Batali Agrees to $5.25M Server-Tip Suit Accord

By Phil Milford | Bloomberg – 5 hours ago

Mario Batali, the celebrity TV chef and owner of several New York restaurants, is often seen with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, taste-testing the culinary delights of Spain in their public television series "On the Road Again."

Batali took a detour, through his lawyers, to New York federal court in Manhattan, where he was sued and accused of cheating workers of part of their tips for serving wine. He and his associate Joseph Bastianich agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle the class-action lawsuit, according to court papers.

Servers at restaurants including Babbo, Casa Mono and Tarry Lodge sued in 2010 alleging their employers violated the Fair Labor Standards Act -- in part by pocketing gratuities equal to as much as 5 percent of nightly wine sales.

"Mr. Batali, Mr. Bastianich, and their restaurants unlawfully confiscated a portion of their workers' hard-earned tips in order to supplement their own profits," employees said in their complaint.

The settlement agreement, filed March 5, is subject to approval by a federal judge.

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:roflmao: :roflmao:

Like the true Hypocrite he really is.

He can make some mean pasta, and his recipes are pretty great, but when it come to Politics he is just another crony capitalist who pretends to be for the little guys while stamping his ballot for progressive candidates & charging a small fortune to those Bankers
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Some comments on the Yahoo Story thread are funny

"He got Chopped"

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