Batali Restaurant Planned For Park Street

by Gilad Edelman | Mar 12, 2014 11:28 am

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A storefront that has been vacant for seven years may soon house the latest outpost of Mario Batali’s restaurant empire. The Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group intends to open a Tarry Lodge restaurant at 278 Park St., according to Lauren Zucker, Yale’s director of New Haven affairs. Yale holds a long-term lease on the property, which is owned by St. Thomas More. Speaking at a Board of Zoning Appeals meeting Tuesday night at 200 Orange St., Zucker said the restaurant group hopes to open the “family friendly” pizzeria, which has locations in Westport and in Port Chester, N.Y, as quickly as possible once it’s approved. Joshua Cohen, the lawyer representing the proposal, asked the board to grant special exceptions for a liquor license, which he said would be used only for restaurant service, and to allow the restaurant to add no new parking. The board sent the proposal to the City Plan Commission for review, and plans to vote on it next month.

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posted by: Just Thinking... on March 12, 2014 8:23am Yale Properties seems to be doing their research well. Batali will fit right in with Gourmet Heaven…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/mario-batali-lawsuit_n_1325304.html

posted by: robn on March 12, 2014 9:52am The waiters at Babbo pull down about 74K annually. This is higher than the median household income in East Rock which everybody in New Haven seems to think is a cash cow. wages=$4.60x40hrsx52wks=$9,568

tips=$247x5daysX52wks=$64,220 http://www.grubstreet.com/2010/07/more_details_on_the_lawsuit_ag.html

posted by: markcbm on March 12, 2014 11:27am Robn, No waiter in New Haven makes $247/night, five nights a week, every week of the year. Batali is opening a spot on Park St., not Park Ave.

posted by: anonymous on March 12, 2014 12:20pm $74K per year in NYC is abject poverty. The bankers who eat at Babbo could afford to pay the servers a living wage.

posted by: robn on March 12, 2014 1:23pm MARKCMB, The Babbo lawsuit took place in the context of New York. ANONYMOUS, 64K a year is NOT abject poverty in NYC according to the BLS which says it’s 156% of the average annual wage for leisure and hospitality workers in Manhatten.

http://www.bls.gov/ro2/qcew9310.htm And not according to the Department Head of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT who says its 241% of a living wage in New York City.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/3606151000

posted by: Megan on March 13, 2014 9:57am The fact is that the owner stole a portion of the workers’ tips every night, which is illegal. He stole millions that they rightfully earned. He outright told his employees that he was taking 4.5% of the tips from alcohol sales, so he admitted to an illegal practice. He said that he was using this stolen money to pay his other (salaried) employees, but he had to pay the salaried employees anyway, so that statement was just a smokescreen. Secondly, the owner was paying some of his workers the server’s minimum ($4.60 per hour) even when they were not waiting tables or attending to customers in any way. By law, they should have been paid at least the regular minimum wage. Third, before we jump to conclusions about how much a server earned per year, remember that tips are pooled and divided among all front-of-the-house workers (anyone who attends to customers in any way, including captains, bussers, runners, back waiters, bartenders, and barbacks). So when tips are stolen by the employer, these workers are robbed as well.