-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-You thought you'd seen the last of him, didn't you?
Well, you were wrong. Daved Leineken, the scouter who made huge waves about this time a year ago for accusations that he bribed former chef Brianna Galen-Ames and was subsequently fired, called Feast Fest "a horrendous...downright tyrannical employer" in an interview.
"We'd work hours and hours on end...with no breaks, the benefits were completely disproportionate to the workloads we were taking on."
In fact, Leineken now spends his days eating caviar and Godiva chocolates in front of a personal home movie theater thanks to the $51 million he made on commissions for signing a whole smorgasbord of now-superstar Feast Fest chefs in his 12 year career from 1999-2011: Galen-Ames, the Mason Duo, Lynn Avi, Joe Pasik, Jan Stephan, Andruw Stephan, Daniel Mettling, Danyela Harris, Laelech Crellas, Jon Chu, Petr and Andri Jones, Guilliame Jacquetaine, and many more. Of the 66 chefs in the event, Leineken signed or was part of a team of scouters which signed 32 of them--almost half. In 2010, Head Scouter Jim Dall announced Leineken as a potential successor to his position.
But the Galen-Ames matter, coupled with his reputation as a ruthless, greedy scouter, led to his fall from glory.
"There is no truth to the comments Mr. Leineken made" in a Feast Fest Press interview, Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt.
The interviewer himself, one Donald Virkenn, said he was "aghast at the falseness" of what Leineken was saying to him during the interview.
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