Dreim Rejects $770K Offer, Scouters Offer $775K

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Feast Fest scouters filed a $770,000, one-year, 2013-option offer for Stephen Dreim early Friday, which the resigned-on-Oct. 18 phenom immediately rejected.

Scouters then filed a $775,000 deal, and are awaiting word from Dreim on that offer.

"If increasing the amounts of the offers don't work, we're going to try increasing their length," said Jim Dall, Head Scouter of Feast Fest. The $775,000 offer is also a one-year deal with a 2013 option.

Dall Friday removed Stefanie McOneguew from the position as head of the team of scouters negotiating with Dreim. This is because Dall felt McOneguew was siding with the interests of the FF chefs, who do not want Dreim to return, and that she thus was purposely "failing to push the negotiations to their fullest possible extent." Dall said, "Ms. McOneguew does not understand that this is not about the chefs. Once Dreim resigned, I issued an ultimatum to my scouters: We need Dreim. Get him back. Disregard any and all other potential factors. Ms. McOneguew was failing to meet that ultimatum." Dall announced midday Friday that Jim Roedde, a former Head Scouter in 2009 who stepped down to become a regular scouter in 2010, had been designated as the official head of the team working with Dreim.

Chefs, who call Dreim "haughty, conceited, and barbarous" and "an absolute displeasure to have collaborated with" are on their way to victory: if Dreim has not been rehired by the Monday roll call of chefs for Feast Fest 2012, the official deadline to hire chefs for that very year, negotiations will automatically be voided.

"Time is running out," Dall said. "We need to make moves, serious, well-thought-out moves that emphasize the demands of the chef, and we need to make them now."






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