Remember the show The Restaurant that featured celebrity chef Rocco Disperito and his eatery, Rocco's on 22nd? I was actually into it for a while. As a fan of cooking, I thought it was a somewhat interesting show.
You can read a blog entry about it here on my blog

Well, it seems that his dream, his lifelong goal of having a restaurant that featured his Italian upbrining, is dead Rocco's on 22nd Street, the restaurant that had its opening and subsequent infighting featured in the two seasons of NBC's reality show The Restaurant, closed its doors for the last time on Wednesday, September 15. The closing took place after a New York state court ruled in late July that China Grill Management LLC, the company run by financier (and convicted felon) Jeffrey Chodorow, could close Rocco's on 22nd Street due to its financial problems, despite celebrity chef and namesake Rocco DiSpirito's ownership interest. I say good. The women may love the guy, but I think as a person he has a lot to be desired. He is rude to his workers, inconsistent in his leadership, and not very loyal to those in his employ.

I've always enjoyed cooking. For a while I tinkered with the idea of being a chef. But watching this guy made me want to enter the food service business less and less. Every show I watched made me angrier at the way he treated his waitstaff and chefs. Maybe this is how master chefs and restaurant owners treat their staff in a big city like New York, but I believe that the majority of middle Americans were shocked at the way he related to his workers.

And on that aspect alone Rocco deserved to have his dream crushed.

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