Check out these Similar Videos🔥 10 Failed Celebrity-Owned Restaurants of NYC: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OOt9VGUKKTw.html Failed Celebrity Restaurants of Los Angeles: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xBXtu4zdKjs.html
As an Atlanta resident, the biggest thing that ruins restaurants & lounges here is POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE by the ratchet employees they hire! This includes Security at the front door. They treat you as if it is a PRIVILEGE to enter the establishment. Then give you service with an ATTITUDE once inside - and still expect a 20% (or more) tip.
This is the one right here!! It be the service for me! Like we’re blessed to be sitting in their establishment and pricing is typically pretty expensive, not to match the awful service you receive.
You know all too well when going high end you must spend a bag and have a vision with people who know the industry. These rappers or celebs don’t know business they think they do so fails happen often!!
They all hyped, black folks day dream and then when the reality of how hard it is to run a restraunt hits them they got nothing but excuses. No room for error in the restaurant business. Look at too Kool chefs restaurant he makes great food himself but his chefs suck so therefore his brand suffers
@@edwardlawler9487so you assume every celebrity and rapper doesn't know business? Yeah of course that makes SENSE if you to do that without any evidence
But if a celebrity has never worked and let alone managed a restaurant it's a terrible investment for them ifbtheh don't understand how the business works
Naw you need multiple streams of income yes restaurant have very small profits margins if you're rich n famous better buying a franchise of something already established 711 wendys subways things with a track record
If you go to Atlanta to visit celebrity restaurants, you missing a big part of visiting the jewel of the south. Shot out to Big Daddy’s on OLD NATIONAL, JJ Fish and Chicken on University and Pryor, SPONDIVITS, Tom Dick and Hanks, The Beautiful, Busy Bees, Mr Everything, Hugo’s Oyster Bar, Bones, Two Urban Licks, The Optimist, One Eared Stag and all the other great restaurants in Atlanta that aren’t attached to celebrities
Damn I miss I miss going to Gladys Knight’s chicken and waffle downtown before attending a concert or an event at the Fox theater. Those were the days!
I heard she had a gambling habit, pop goes the weasel. Lose money at casino 🎰, take a break and run to chicken 🐔 and waffles 🧇 joint. Re up on the 💵 cash😊
Atlanta before 2005 was a totally different city. Entrepreneurial Blacks came from all over the country with innovative business concepts, hopes and dreams. Atlanta was the launching pad. Crime existed in secluded pockets of the city, but for the most part, it was safe. It was a bustling renaissance city -- CHOCOLATE CITY. I lived on the outskirts, in a 4000 square foot house in Alpharetta and loved the city. Now--thanks, but no thanks!
My family moved from the ATL area back in June 2005. I loved growing up in Lawrenceville. It breaks my heart to hear that it's only changed for the worse.
I wouldn't say ATL was safer then but it was more open and cheaper making it a great city for investment ideas. 2005, the city was easier to get around, and alot more affordable to live in the city vs today. Atl is still a good city but not like it was in the 00s, where it had a more friendly "small town vibe but with a bit of big city excitement". There were alot of visitors but now many of those people who visited in the 00s are residents now. Atl is definitely experiencing growing pains now. I wouldn't say ATL is a big city but it is definitely not a small town anymore.
I used to be a line cook and I wouldn’t dare work for any celebrity owned restaurants and that’s because it’s usually a bunch of inexperienced clowns playing kitchen. They don’t hire real chefs they go out the way to employ “friends” and they cut so many corners that it’s actually infuriating I would never put myself through this.
@@assassin8636 no it’s true do your research celebrity owned restaurants have a window of 2-4 years.The only successful ones are not ran by the celebrity they’re just the owner it’s actually ran by people with experience in the industry. The bass player from Greenday owns a very successful pizza place in Berkeley that’s been here for years and probably isn’t going anywhere.
Every time there’s a black owned business in my neighborhood it’s only open like three random days of the week for four hours at a time. It’s a complete joke.
@@OliGrant-sw8by and then they don't be having half the stuff on the menu. Then when you ask what they DO have cause You've made 3 choices and they were outta all of them, they have the nerve to act like you in the wrong and get an attitude🙄
Basketball americans are not hard workers I mean the last time they worked hard was cuz they literally had to 😂. Since then it's been food stamps and hennesey
I’m not sorry but “basketball Americans” is such a lame insult because a lot of these guys make money with their skills and not sitting in their mothers basement with their drawls on
A lot of these so called celebrities think BP are just supposed to accept anything. It’s a damn shame that the Dupri cafe didn’t pay their employees in a timely matter. I doubt the last check was the first time they were paid late. There’s no excuse considering how much that money that man has. 🙄
@@jrsingin I'm from Charlotte NC, living in College Park GA with hopes of making it big 🤭😂 and there is a diner called Chicken King located in Charlotte. Only one was located in the projects called Earle Village, in the 1980s. Now called First Ward Gardens. Mixed income community. Very delicious foods and a high rating. _It was a hole in wall._ They specialize on a double Big cheese burgers, whiting fish, perch and flounder fish. Not chicken, but sell it. *The Chicken King Special* consist of a distinguished tasting big double cheese burger. 2 beef patties and 2 slice of cheese with onion, tomato, pickle, mayo, bbq sauce, and crinkle cut fries, _cold slaw._ If asking me, it rivals a big mac, double whopper with cheese and qtr pounder with cheese. Ask the local, they'd say the same. Since the 1990s they grew. Now it's about 7 or so diners. The Food hasn't lacked, but the menu has grown with chicken and steak phillies, Subs, pizza, tacos and more. Late 80s & early 90s was only fries, hush puppies, onion rings and _cold slaw._ Now you get bbq baked beans, BE peas & rice, mashed potatoes & gravy, collards, sweet potato pudding mack & cheese and potato salad. The only downside to me is their crinkle cut fries. They used to be steak cut fries which were better tasting and a high end quality. Those high-end eateries in uptown Charlotte be on the local news getting shut down temporarily for low grades and warnings, but the _all high & so called mighty people_ frequent those spots. I love those hole in the wall joints. Some produce very good tasting meals.
I went to Nenes lounge back in 2020 it was thriving over there and it was fir my birthday and it was so fun the parking wasnt rwlly anything u wouldnt find in atlanta the food was good and inexpensive and the staff was friendly and amazing.
Restaurants are trendy esp associated with celebs unless you have great service, great food, great atmosphere and it is profitable and scalable. Best route is to be a silent partner in an established eatery and make occasional marketing appearances to boost the prestige.
@@dbro5430 I'm sorry that you feel that way. I pray that the Lord that if you have a loss of a loved one and you're getting dragged all through the media then your child has a stroke and you're dealing with that and you also have your own mental issues. Hopefully somebody will give you grace and not just pick you apart because you were in the light. Hopefully when you experience stuff like this you can keep yours behind doors so that no one will judge you and want to make fun of your pain. It's so sad how this world is lost behind gossip and money
@@LoveGodOutloudThat's a lot! When you say Nene was being dragged - do you mean because she was fornicating with a married man?? Wayment - God is okay with you watching that ratchetness?
Black Folks in Hip-Hop should not act or open restaurants unless they have worked in the industry and have menu testing and open a Food truck first to test the idea. Not paying employees and terrible Guest Service is a common theme.
I would think nobody should open a restaurant unless they plan on putting in alot of time. It is definitely a full time business. I guess alot of celebrities probably get pressure from family and friends to open a restaurant and probably has very little connection to it.
Bun B did exactly that. He started off with a food truck and going to food festivals and events before opening restaurants which is why his is successful.
And constantly Failing Inspections, because they "need to mop them dirty Azz floors!". I just had to say it - Sheree had me Gagging when she told that to Kandi 😂
@SeverancePay500 lol good answer During the babybommer generation The acceptance of merit Was this first question before Saying Hello Thst question was where did you go Meaning where did you attend college That was up untill 1980 When people in higher education taught inform and educated the people Now it's dummy down on all Level A reason why you see all the orotest The young people have awaken to the game that's Why their expression of Discontent Lol
When I moved to ATL in 2008, I ate at Gladys Knight's (Lithonia location), Justin's (went for a day party where the food was ok and Left Eye Bday celebration; enjoyed myself and food was much better), and Scales 925 (birthday celebration) once. Out of those 3, I actually enjoyed Scales 925: our server was great and the food (Peachtree style waffle with jumbo wings, side of collards and lemonade) was good. I always knew the reason for Scales 925 closing but not the other restaurants. Some of these I never heard of. Thanks for sharing.
@osirismoon oh, it's gone now. Used to be on the corner of Piedmont and North Ave. It was an open-air mall with decent shops and good restaurants. Chris Tuckers Club brought a lot of traffic. Comedians were coming, and they had great food. But we kept hearing about them losing their liquor license. I think that's what did them in!
@osirismoon yeah, it opened not long after the first Rush Hour when he was hot! I worked downtown, and we actually went down there during a media event they had during lunch. We stood outside and took pictures! Rio Mall was mostly glass, so you could look right inside. Good times!
Let me tell you .. if we could bring back any of these restaurants it would be Gladys Knights chicken and waffles. Everything tasted so good in that menu and that Arnold Palmer!!!
Update: Frank Skis turned into Klass which turned into Eleven45 which will shutter because 2 weeks ago a 20 year old was shot inside the establishment which serves liquor. My Condolences …some of these locations just carry on bad energy and it’s evident in the outcomes
just because you can rap doesn't mean you can run a restaurant difference business, rap is entertainment a restaurant is satisfaction and atmosphere and pricing but give them all an "A" for effort
Yes. The same amount of time that a person would put in an entertainment career would need to be in the restaurant which would seem impossible for a celebrity. Only way I kind of seeing it work out is if the entertainer makes the restaurant their full time job which they probably don't want to do.
Good Broadcast!!! It’s Not celebrities that fail at the restaurant business. Many restaurants open with vision and grandeur, however the restaurant business is a hard nut to crack from a Business perspective. The overhead. Dealing with property, health regulations, employee/HR, insurance, PR/media, Competition and FINANCIALS. Sorry, not Sorry!!! It’s not add water and stir. Those who are Successful took time to build their Brand and had true Restauranteurs and Investors in their in their corner!!!
Fact and long money 💰 help. Old money and New money 💵. Like you said build brand that be around a long time. Make sure you have money every on a daily week. Good credit will help from 🏦 banks with a plan. Because they want their money back with a profit 😊
they gotta nice joint in the s.suburbs of Chicago called "Soul Vibez" that's organic soul food that's real delicious 😋 just gotta bring some money 💰.. nonetheless tho it's a good to eat and catch a vibe type of establishment
I was treated well at Justin's the 2x I went while visiting Atlanta. I also have been to Old Lady Gang. --- I'd say they need to work on their customer service.
Restaurants owned by celebrities are the worst and riskiest investments you could ever have. Celebrity restaurants usually have horrible customer service and the food is mid at best
Many years ago Burt Reynolds owned a restaurant in ATL called Burt's Place. It was a sandwich shop more or less. It was located in the Omni. I use to work around the corner from the Omni and we ate at Burt's Place often.
One thing I would think is that owning a restaurant is hard work. It is something that I would be reluctant to put money into if my passion isn't into it. I would think an active entertainer would have a hard time maintaining a restaurant and maintaining an entertainment career. You would definitely need a good team that knows the business (restaurants), monitors and control quality, and be flexible with customers, and yet competitive with other owners who probably have more time to invest. The celebrities probably have the money but probably don't have the time.
Gladys Knight actually started the restaurant with Ronald Winan's and after he passed away it became just Gladys Knight Chicken and Waffles. She did not turn it over to her son until years later. It was not originally his in the first place.
Yep. I remember that. It's sad how her son ran the business into the ground. Some folks can really screw up the blessings handed to them that others either have to work hard to obtain or can only dream about.
I believe Kandi Burruss had to close one of her OLG restaurants. Her and Todd also never opened the OLG breakfast or the the Mexican restaurant Todd was working on a few years back
No they never close a spot. They actually open in the State Farm arena too. And their food and prices are good. Yes he never opened the Mexican and Breakfast ones he talked about on the show. Probably because he's doing his movies and Broadway now.
It's an Atlanta thing. They call it a "lounge" to signal to people that it's a place to hang out at instead of just eating and leaving. They want you to hang around to spend additional money on drinks and hookahs too.
@@soldiermike6ft259I'm so sick of the hookah bars in every where...they have a lot of them here in Houston and the Turkey Leg Hut closed down and it used to cost $25 to park your car and there 😂
Pittypat's Porch, Gene and Gabes, Colonnade, Dantes Down The Hatch, Hickory House, Bones Steak House, Silver Grill, Mary Mac's Tea Room, all saw their heyday end by 1990s, except for The Colonnade.
Atlanta Georgia downtown Marta station has the LARGEST RATS AND MOST RATS I HAVE EVER SEEN AND THIS INCLUDES RATS IN ASIA. AND I KNOW WHAT SYSTEMIC TO THE PROBLEM
I have and they are freaking huge also they don't flinch about seeing humans, my family, and I was visiting last Xmas, having an amazing time in TimeSquare when we got hungry and came upon this pizza joint well the rats had the same idea and invading the tables running everywhere me unaware just sat there wondering why everyone moved and staring then someone said you better get up, my God I jumped up so quickly not believing my own eyes these things were the size of cats no lie. Utterly disgusting and unbelievable.
I live here now but some years back, I was here for my birthday and went to thumbs up, frank skis, Justin’s and Gladys knight. Frank skis was a whole vibe, Justin’s never brought my food out and thumbs up and Gladys food was sooo good!
The truth is that most business regardless of type, fail. Restaurants have a particularly high failure rate due to the cost of overhead and the amount of time that it takes to actually turn over a profit. As a non-celebrity, I would experiment with a catering business, a pop-up or a food truck before diving into a full-on restaurant.
Yes Strip in Atlantic Station was a hot spot. Twist at Phillips Plaza also ….Coast Seafood and raw bar best amazing restaurant with great food… had wonderful bday dinners there. The Tavern at Phipps as well…. Noche was a great spot and they both had excellent food. I am a foodie so I miss good food and good atmosphere and unfortunately they closed because of owners divorce or something like that 😢😢😢
I ate at Scale 925 the day after TI's birthday and the staff complained openly to customers that they were forced to work for free catering TI's party there the night before.
