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Feds charge owner of Somerville breakfast place threatened to have employee's family killed in overtime dispute, cajoled other workers to lie to investigators
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3 years of OT is gonna be
3 years of OT is gonna be like over $20,000.
That's
That's a lot of pancakes!
Not the greatest time in the restaurant business to
get a reputation for wage theft. But drama seems to follow Mirza around.
Mike Moccia
is no prize either. Unlike his beloved parents.
2nd page of that article
I keep getting “too many redirects” errors when I try to fetch the 2nd page. Anyone else have any luck?
Same here
Same here, and I was on the edge of my seat. I had vague knowledge of the rivalry but didn't realize Moccia dragged him into an alley and beat the shit out of him after claiming his relatives were responsible for 9/11.
Working link
Here's a working link to the second page:
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2016/05/01/somerville-breakfa...
Thanks for the link
I was on the edge of my seat too!
oh jeez, thank you for the
oh jeez, thank you for the working link, the truth on page two of what happened in their fight is so completely differently than what he claims on page one
and is quite sickening to see
and is quite sickening to see him come on to a table of tufts female undergrads. I've seen it multiple times...
Ah the Ball Square Breakfast Club
The drama never ceases in the Breakfast War Zone.
Tragicomedy
at its finest. The moral of this play is: if you find yourself eating breakfast in Ball Square, and someone mentions that the proprietor of the place next door has mysteriously disappeared, avoid the sausages.
This guy's worse than
This guy's worse than Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi".
I started going to the place next door with a nearly identical menu, but that owner's a hardcore Trumper, so now I just go to the coffee shop across the street.
The menu is identical bc the
The menu is identical bc the Trumper was at war with Soundbites. Made a competing business. Stole their menu and stole their cook
That is one version of the story, while the other
owner tells it differently. Read the BoMag piece I cited in my earlier post above.
I personally don't care who's right: both owners strike me as awful people.
Stole?
The menu is one thing, but saying he "stole" the cook makes it sound like you regard him as property. I presume he made the cook an offer of employment that the cook preferred over the one he had at Soundbites, and he took it. Dude's not an indentured servant.
Is the place in the little
Is the place in the little old fashioned diner still open? Kelly's?
Kelly's is still going,
closes at 2pm every day. That's where I go when I'm in the neighborhood, never mind the famous potatoes at the Battling Bickersons' two places.
Should be criminal charges as well
I'm not sure what precisely those would be, but something in the assault and witness tampering spaces...
Kelly's Diner
… was always my favorite for breakfast in Ball Square, Somerville.
http://www.kellysdiner.net/
Let the others have their food fight.
My greatest moment in Kelly's Diner was when one of the lyrics of the John Prine song “Middle Man” came true for me.
“I was sitting in a diner with a girl named Flo
She wouldn't say yes, but she couldn't say no”
Actually, Flo was the waitress. Every diner should have a waitress named Flo.
Middle Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsVRL6QH828
How 'bout a diner named "Flo's"
https://www.imissflorencediner.com/
I love Kelly's
I love Kelly's
The concept of standing on a line to eat breakfast/ brunch is something that's completely eluded me
Showing my age but...
Kiss my grits!
A just verdict
would be to give the business to the employees.
The hospitality industry is well known ….
…. for worker exploitation but this guy really takes the cake!
Nice work DoL...
...now can you go after the really big exploiters with the same vigor?
DoL is suffering from the same issue as the IRS
years of budget cuts and "trimming the fat" means they simply do not have the staff resources to go after the big guys. Megacorporations and Billionaires can afford lawyers to drag things out, take every request for records to a judge, give regulators the run around, etc. Add a year-to-year approach to reporting "success" and blowing 5 years digging into amazon's shit makes it look like your staff aren't doing anything, leading to more fat trimming.
Both agencies have pivoted to smaller, winnable cases as a result.
Choice Bites
Getting booted out as you were not finished eating, never mind finishing your coffee made the diner experience at Sound Bites unpleasant despite the food.
Plus the name always bothered me.
Too dumb.
I really miss Dolly's for late night.
Yes, Dolly's
My memory is getting fuzzy (or maybe I was less than sober those late nights), but wasn't there a late night place near Davis called Kay & Chip's?
Same place
Perhaps because of family succession or an ownership change, Kay & Chips became Dolly's, with little or no change to the restaurant operation. Tenoch currently occupies that space.
Sometimes known as "Dolly's
Sometimes known as "Dolly's at Kay & Chip's".