Amid an ongoing legal battle between the food hall owners and GM Food Concepts partner Mark Shaker, Jesus Silva's concepts face an uncertain future.
, and longtime friend and partner Silva to join the Golden Mill enterprise. One big problem: This was the beginning of 2021 — a time when the last thing on most restaurateurs's minds was expansion. And so, with only six weeks before opening, there were still two empty stalls to fill.
Last June, the Golden Mill owners removed Shaker as a co-manager, listed their reasons in a lawsuit that followed in February. Primary among the allegations is that Shaker betrayed the owners by “engaging in self-dealing;" notably, not informing them of his partnership stake in GM Food Concepts and providing GM Food Concepts with overly-advantageous contracts.
GM Food Concepts does have a combined minimum sales threshold of $1,000,000 compared to $300,000 for Rolling Smoke BBQ and $100,000 for Happy Cones.was able to obtain and analyze the difference in contracts between GM Food Concepts and Rolling Smokes BBQ and found only minor changes; some changes were more beneficial to Rolling Smoke BBQ, such as the Golden Mill"will reimburse [Rolling Smoke] in full for all costs of wood purchased by [Rolling Smoke] to be used to heat the outdoor smokers.
Among the changes were a dynamic minimum sales threshold and an annual renewal term . Silva and Shaker can only guess at the ultimate intention of the owners. “I think they want to take over the whole operation,” Silva offers. Neither Susan Ganter or Don Martin responded to a request for comment.
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