Come
on guys, the fact that we worked for such a SOB is as much part of our
legacy as was putting on those darn costumes every night. I remember
when I worked as a secretary for Molly's on the weekends (bet a lot of
you didn't know that I did that too! haha), I would have to pay the
delivery people cash when they delivered food to the back door because
Tayar was notorious for not paying his debtors. And this was during the
hayday of Molly's (early 80's) and the corporation certainly wasn't
hurting for money. I'm sure the people at the corporate office could
tell some doozzies about what went on behind the scenes.
The thing I remember most about him was how he would park that ugly
classic car of his (was it an Excalibur?) out front as if announcing:
"Our Lordship Has Arrived!" I think he did that to make
sure that the door person could watch over it knowing that we'd all
throw rotten tomatoes in the back seat if he parked it out back. lol
He'd then throw open the front door, bullying his way through the
restaurant for an hour or so, and when he was ready to go ~ he'd stand
up by the podium and give several high shrill whistles that could be
heard throughout the restaurant. His entourage would then
scurry up there and follow him out, making sure they were at least 5
steps behind His Majesty. I was always so embarrassed for Jeffie when
he'd do that. I would have kicked the living sheat out of him had I
been her.
Another time, during a mandatory staff meeting on Saturday... Wait,
break in story: as you all recall, we NEVER got paid for those long Sat
morning staff meetings, dance practices, "on call" nights where we
had to sit by the back door (sometimes for 2 hours) waiting to see if
we had to work that night, then only to be sent home. Yep, that
was a fine way to treat your employees! Ok, back to story....so we were
all sitting there in the lounge that early Sat
morning, listening to David Campbell, our manager at the time. In walks
Tayar, he marches into the middle of the meeting and stands there
like the pompous arse that he was, with his arms crossed, wearing that
ugly scowl he always had on his face. He then breaks in,
starts to yell at David about something and suddenly starts hitting
David on the chest with a rolled up newspaper that he had in
his hand. We all sat there with our mouths open and absolutely could
not believe what we were seeing!!! David was a total wimp when it
came to Tayar, so he just stood there and took it until finally Tayar
stomped out in his usual tyrrade. I wanted to cry I felt
so sorry for David that day, and wondered then how such an evil person
could deserve to have such a wonderful group of people
continue to work so hard to make him the rich man that he was. - Robin (Baker) Stiner
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I
remember one Saturday night when we had Aunt Jemima night. We all had
bandanas on our head and were carrying spatulas around (In honor of the "Pancake treatment" that Bill
Murray gave his girl in Stripes) All the customers were loving it. Papa
Luigi was handing out cocktail napkins so the customers could wear them,
too.
In comes Jeffiee and she just
happened to be wearing a green polka dot bandanna. She took one look around and
whipped that thing off of her head
so fast.
The greeter was some little
chicky-doo who didn't know who she was and She's going "Hey lady how did you know it
was Aunt Jemima night?"
She was not
amused..... - Susie (Hazelton) Kitchen