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News & ArtsFriday, January 6, 2012
Chow Don't Let the Door Etc. at Aqua (the Restaurant Formerly Known as Waterfront)
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:14 PM
- Ronald Holden
- At least the doors are padded!
On hearing from Mackay Restaurants—that's the El Gaucho empire, including Aqua by El Gaucho, which used to be called Waterfront—that Aqua was getting a new chef* after only a short time under its new name, food writer Ronald Holden** sent an email inquiry about the reason for the end of chef Peter Levine's tenure. He received this unusually frank reply from Mackay corporate executive chef Ken Sharp:
Hi Ronald, Peter didn’t align himself with our company standards, of excellence, quality, consistent, and treating all staff with respect. Although he was very talented, he could not get over his ego Thanks Ken
P.R. people everywhere must be aghast. We sent Peter Levine the above, and he emailed back in apparent tranquility:
Its all good on my end. I will persue my own place this year...
I guess I didn't fit in with the El Gaucho kitchen.
*Steve Cain, moving from chef de cuisine at El Gaucho Bellevue.
**Our own Dominic Holden's dad.
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Sharp is guilty of punctuation and grammar infractions. Look at that faulty parallelism! "...of excellence, quality, consistent, and treating all staff with respect."
Levine is guilty of lazy spelling and punctuation.
For me, the faulty parallelism decides it. There's just no excuse for that.
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On top of that background, Mr. Levine earns points for responding with equanimity. Coupled with his less-egregious grammar/orthography offenses, he wins.
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On hearing from Mackay Restaurants—that's the El Gaucho empire, including Aqua by El Gaucho, which used to be called Waterfront—that Aqua was getting a new chef* after only a short time under its new name, food writer Ronald Holden** sent an email inquiry about the reason for the end of chef Peter Levine's tenure.This sentence is TERRIBLE! I guess I should be thankful that at least some of it was pulled out into footnotes - but really, at that point, why bother? Might as well go for broke and just shove it ALL the fuck in there.
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Especially the famous El Gaucho kitchen spelling bee.
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our company standards, of excellence, quality, consistent, and treating all staff with respect
reminds me of 30 Rock's version of Six Sigma:
Teamwork, Insight, Brutality, Male Enhancement, Handshakefulness, and Play Hard
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