re: Chef John Folse: Why is he such a hated figure in Southeast Louisiana?

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You say this like a diss. I'm literally on the Mediterranean right now (yes I'm up at 4:30 am) enjoying my 8th vacation of the year with a short trip to Mexico next week. While you're entire life revolves around bitching about your neighbors and getting pawned on the OT. Sure you probably make more than me and live in a better house, I don't care what others have, you seem obsessed by it. I'm my own boss, I barely lift a finger, I rarely break a sweat and I live my fricking life I don't just spend my days bitching and being a curmudgeon I proudly fix appliances. I enjoy my job. I enjoy the freedom it gives me. So yeah. Good boom. I am a blue collar business owner. Oh the shame. Go tell the story about knocking on your neighbors door at 3am with a 7 iron over a barking dog. Makes you sound so tough or so fake. One or the other.

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if you an actual education

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Maybe he likes things to be done right the first time and doesn't want to do them a 2nd time, or maybe he is detailed-oriented and has a vision and wants it done to his vision. People so downplay someone's intensity as a negative trait!

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Are you trying to make a threat?

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Good night.

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I called up and it was booked. I called back, declared I was Doctor BrotherEsau and told them I was passing by and would be there at 8pm. Amazing the difference it made. Hostess said she'd seat me at the chef's table.

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I had booked a special weekend stay.. to celebrate our anniversary. We were poor graduate students..
I called ahead and made reservations several days in advance - 7 pm sharp.

We arrived famished at 6:45 pm - and they found our reservation and said it would only be "a few minutes"...Chef John Folse... our reservation time of 7 pm came and went, and then 7:15, and then 7:30, and then 7:45 - and upon inquiring a few times we were told over and over..."sorry, but the kitchen is really backed up...but there was a different reason we could see...there were numerous customers who arrived after us and were told there was no open tables without a reservation. But many of them were negotiating with the Maitre D - "Go tell John it's us, he knows us"

These folks were not just requesting, but insisting that they be seated without reservations - And apparently several of these people did know Chef Folse - who on that entire night (with the Kitchen backed up) sat in that bar, holding court and waving on a procession of locales and dignitaries into the few seats available as soon as customers finished up their meals.

This constant bumping of our reservations continued as one-by-one an old friend or a dignitary would arrive and with a wink and a nod they would get seated - always in view of me, my wife, and a few other unlucky couples who, like us, had nothing more than a "reservation".

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