Another Amy's Baking Company? Texas Restaurant Ripped For Calling Customers 'Sorry A**ed Rednecks' -- Chef Responds
Sept. 6 2013, Published 3:42 p.m. ET
It's another kitchen nightmare â but this time, Gordon Ramsay is not involved.
Sava! Italiano restaurant in Amarillo, Texas, is drawing dozens of angry comments online after allegedly posting a hateful going-out-of-business letter to locals on the restaurant door. But the owner, Chef Mark Coffman, exclusively tells Breaking Celebrity News that it's all a dirty plot by disgruntled employees.
"CLOSED!" the sign, which first appeared on Reddit, read. "You sorry a**ed, rednecked sacks of goat sperm had no idea what you had here! Good luck with your pre-packaged frozen sh*t food in this town. Maybe you'll remember us when you're b**ging your sister and think she smells like pasta. We are off to make money in a town whose average IQ is above room temperature! CIAO!!!"
Angry commenters took to Facebook after a picture of the sign, on restaurant letterhead, went viral.
"Your foods sic sh*t anyway!" Thad Davis wrote on the restaurant's Facebook page.
Wrote Casey Salley, "âŠI hope your restaurant drowns in a pool of goat sperm."
And Frankie Billy Lopez wrote, "I hope your restaurants sic all lose business. Dumb f**ks."
But Coffman tells Breaking Celebrity News that he never wrote such hateful things about his former customers -- even though he thinks he knows who did.
"We did not post it. It was absolutely done maliciously," Coffman tells Breaking Celebrity News.
"Nobody has actually seen the sign on the building. We've only seen it on the Internet. And I don't know anything about Photoshop or anything like that, but we do have some disgruntled people who have access to everything: my personal phone, personal computer, restaurant, computer, letterhead."
Coffman says that some of his chefs were upset when he pulled the plug somewhat sooner than expected on August 16 in preparation for moving the restaurant to Lubbock â and now he believes they've gone rogue.
"These were my two closest guys," he says of the alleged perps. "I don't want to implicate anybody in particular, but these were several trusted employees within the company. We're doing research on who first posted it on Reddit, and I can't positively say they're the ones who printed it off, stuck it on the window, took the picture and ripped it down, but I think so."