[Mantis]

A bit overly cutesy writing style, but this is pretty funny so far:

http://www.thefullcomp.blogspot.com/

[johnnyd]

Yeah, cutesy.
I like it when she gets down to business though - the first post was the most readable (lots of celebration last night, I see). Great gossip - even better that it's checked out. I love the sense the surprise that a lot of people are checking it out and eMailing tips - and it's barely three days old! Worth watching - even if I hardly know the scene down there.

[johnnyd]

Lovin' this:

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We'll consider it, Mizz Black. But that's on a condition: we needs someone to tell Corby Kummer your "restaurant expert" that YOO-HOO HELLLOOOO!!! WE CAN SEE YOU!!!! And any of y'alls out there trying to pretend that you don't know who he is when he's smack in the middle of your dining room ain't paying attention or are reinforcing some bad behavior. All y'alls out there, do us proud and march right up to his table next time he's trying to put your house under his microscope and say howdy. Take back the POWER. Unless you actually respect his opinion and how he only mentions the goddamn service if some lady has a baby in the middle of a dining room and a waitress helps deliver it. Or accidentally steps on it. As far as we're concerned we'll keep not reading his shizz till he can make it through one day of prep with Tony Maws - or 5 minutes plating with Ken Oringer - then after that go out with a crew of line cooks of his choice after work and come back the next day to dishwash in the same damn clothes with nothing to eat and drink but staff meal and water straight out of the hand sink.

...but there's no way she'll be able to keep this up:

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Y'alls, we just woke up and we're already in the weeds. Gotta work a goddamn double today and our apron needs to be washed. Stayin' up late is bad for the blog bizz, so we're gonna have to keep it short and sweet today.

[nuxvomica]

i find the style oddly reminiscent (if somewhat sanitized) of PXthis.com, the original 'blahg'

imitation, flarttery, etc.?

[johnnyd]

That's new to me , thanks. Love the skin too. There's got to be one of these per metro area, if not already, soon.

Could be dangerous...

[nuxvomica]

the book (PX This) is actually quite funny and well written (if you like her writing style) - you can read excerpts on the website. the forum just started a couple of weeks ago. i'm sure it will spread - Shameless Restaurants is a missed opportunity for industry's POV - crazy ranting and raving, for the most part...

[Cathy]

I thought PX This was a riot.

[ngatti]

Cathy, on Apr 6 2007, 03:28 PM, said:

I thought PX This was a riot.

You'll always be PPX to me.

[9lives]

I had dinner in Chinatown last night with a group..including a few people that are very knowlegeable on the local food scene.

The rumor is that Gwen Butler is involved in the blog...don't know if that's true; but Gwen has been around the Boston scene for a while..and Ms 9 is acquainted with her. She achieved some fame a few years ago..

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/...tion_is_served/

Garrett Harker was a long time partner/coworker with Barbara Lynch ( and a nice guy)...the G of B & G Oyster..now owns Eastern Standard in Kenmore Sq.

I don't know if Gwen is still affiliated with Eastern Standard..which is a Balthazar knockoff..and worth a stop if you're in the area..or even if you're not.

I enjoy reading the blog but wasn't aware of it til I read about it here.

[Cathy]

ngatti, on Apr 6 2007, 09:20 PM, said:

Cathy, on Apr 6 2007, 03:28 PM, said:

I thought PX This was a riot.

You'll always be PPX to me.

[johnnyd]

Interesting possibility - Gwen being the author. She's doing a good job hiding...

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We was talking on the Lynch post about the difference between building a house and maintaining a house, and Gwen Butler, the woman who started as GM, y'alls are calling a motherfucking CAFCO. New General Holden ain't keeping house and lost the managers he was bequeathed, only keeping the Cannon and No 9 alum Ed Mancuso the wine director, and replacing the manager and service director who walked here and here with some not ready for prime time players and a staff that's turning against itself. In the BOH, Exec sous Peter Sultenfeuss went on to be Green Street's new chef and when Chef Biss followed Ken Oringer, well that was about the very last thing that place could take. Now we can't get the straight story on whether the kid they brought over from Salts is the new chef or not. Peeps said he showed up one day started working salad, got no intro to the crew, and we hear Harker hedging on whether he's actually the replacement or not. HUH???? If they don't know what the story is, than how the hells can we?

Head spinning!

I am only guessing that it's a woman - a hunch, you see.

[Mantis]

johnnyd, on Apr 7 2007, 04:02 PM, said:

Interesting possibility - Gwen being the author. She's doing a good job hiding...

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We was talking on the Lynch post about the difference between building a house and maintaining a house, and Gwen Butler, the woman who started as GM, y'alls are calling a motherfucking CAFCO. New General Holden ain't keeping house and lost the managers he was bequeathed, only keeping the Cannon and No 9 alum Ed Mancuso the wine director, and replacing the manager and service director who walked here and here with some not ready for prime time players and a staff that's turning against itself. In the BOH, Exec sous Peter Sultenfeuss went on to be Green Street's new chef and when Chef Biss followed Ken Oringer, well that was about the very last thing that place could take. Now we can't get the straight story on whether the kid they brought over from Salts is the new chef or not. Peeps said he showed up one day started working salad, got no intro to the crew, and we hear Harker hedging on whether he's actually the replacement or not. HUH???? If they don't know what the story is, than how the hells can we?

Head spinning!

I am only guessing that it's a woman - a hunch, you see.

If it IS her, I wonder if this whole thing is a sneaky setup to see who she knows who would dish her:

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Extra credit for anyone who can give us something we don't know already about Garrett Harker or Gwen Butler.

That seems pretty farfetched though.

[nuxvomica]

9lives, on Apr 7 2007, 03:12 AM, said:

Garrett Harker was a long time partner/coworker with Barbara Lynch ( and a nice guy)...the G of B & G Oyster..now owns Eastern Standard in Kenmore Sq.

I don't know if Gwen is still affiliated with Eastern Standard..which is a Balthazar knockoff..and worth a stop if you're in the area..or even if you're not.

I enjoy reading the blog but wasn't aware of it til I read about it here.

don't know the players but went to Eastern Standard recently and loved it. The drinks are fantastic and the food was pretty good too. Loved our waitress - she made excellent recommendations and took a great care of us.

[johnnyd]

I hope your good experience generated nice tippage because The Full Comp got this in their mailbag:

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"Apply to ES, only, and I am talkin only if you have a guaranteeeed supply of crystal, crank, aterol, riddlin or other such devices that will keep you staring at the ceiling when four in the morning rolls around 'cause that is about the time you will be comin' home from that place. Just in time for your 8 in the morn breakfast shift....''

Be prepared to work doubles, triples, and get next to no time off. A single shift in this place is like a double in a normal joint, so it's no surprise the staff they have looks like this since they need to cover a schedule that's calling for at least twice the bodies they got.

Now we know lots of you talking to The Full Comp are close to this place, and we are really restraining ourselves till we find the right approach to the mountain of radioactive goss y'all have dropped on us. Some of it is strictly prurient and not pertaining to peeps who are trying to see if they want to try to make a living here since it's bizz being conducted off the premises - or at least in the hotel rooms upstairs. We're hoping to HELLS what we're hearing about the physical and psychological conditions ain't true for the beat-down peeps on the inside, but the early evidence is not looking good for Harker's Playhouse.

[johnnyd]

The Full Comp finally got a rap on the wrist for the "peeps", "y'alls" and "shizz" lingo...

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Your concept is great, the information unrivaled. If you want to be cool to Jaime Kennedy fans and Wayne Brady lovers, stay the same. If you want to be taken seriously as the devoted and intelligent restaurant people you clearly are, please, find your own voice and speak in it.

Her(?) reply:

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This is the first letter we got about this and just today we were talking about how we're dropping too many goddamns and f-bombs, so we're gonna start cleaning it up pronto.

Please don't give up on us, it was just a disguise we put on, since so many other white people fall into this *Jaime Kennedy fans and Wayne Brady lovers* lingo and we could blend into the crowd - BUT YOU'RE RIGHT it's an IDIOTIC CROWD.

The 4/10 post is called "Full Comp Shutting Down" but adds to stay tuned for the revamped version.