Alicia L wrote:Ron Johnson wrote:Alicia L wrote:I am told that the Executive Chef, Mark Latino, is a New Orleans transplant courtesy of Hurricane Katrina and graduate of The Culinary Institute of America with over 20 years of experience in the culinary arts.
Alicia:
Aren't you the manager there? Seems odd that you wouldn't know where your chef is from. You might want to walk back to the kitchen and ask him.
This sort of blatant PR is bad form, but when the restaurant manager pretends to be an anonymous customer it is downright dishonest.
Sorry gang...I am NOT the manager of Caffe Perusa. My insider information is my relationship to the sister-in-law of the chef who I met recently and my own personal experience from dining at the restaurant. If I offended anyone, I apologize. I stand by my observations and opinions. Others may disagree. However, Mr Johnson you have been ill advised and I would consider your comments "bad form". Perhaps in the future you should withhold comments until you know the information you act on is accurate before attacking others in this forum. Thank You!
If you are not the manager then I have been ill advised and I apologize. I do, however, stand by my concern about a situation where those who have a relationship with a restaurant come on the forum to post a hyperbolic and obvious advertisement for the restaurant. I would've had no reaction whatsoever to your post if you had disclosed your relationship with the restaurant in your post.
This is not an "attack" on you as you term it, but a continuing effort to keep this forum credible and dedicated to honest and objective reviews of restaurants. If we do not vigilantly police the site it would become overrun with PR announcements and marketing tools disguised as reviews. Then it would serve no purpose to anyone.