-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-You might as well stick a fork in this one and serve it for dinner, because the negotiations with Stephen Dreim and Feast Fest scouters are about to be hunted down by the evil forces of, well, time.
Dreim and FF must reach a deal by midday Monday, when the official 2012 Feast Fest Roll Call will take place. The Roll Call will officially set out the roster for Feast Fest 2012, and once the roll call begins, no further chefs can be signed to the event. (Well, technically, they can be, but they wouldn't be able to serve in Feast Fest until Feast Fest 2013.)
Dreim rejected a $775,000 deal Saturday, making scouters realize they need to focus on time, rather than money, in their next offer, which they filed at $778,500 over three years late Saturday night. Dreim has yet to reply.
"It became clear that one big turnoff for Mr. Dreim in our offers was that they were all temporary, one-year deals, and the possibility of launching right back into intensive negotiations such as these after Feast Fest was clearly unappealing to Mr. Dreim," said Jim Roedde, the scouter heading the team of scouters tasked with working on Dreim's case. "Our newest deal will ensure we won't have to negotiate with Mr. Dreim again until 2015, and we hope this will illicit a better reaction from Mr. Dreim."
Scouters hope to engage in a back-in-forth with Dreim on Sunday, exchanging rapid fire offers and reactions in hopes of getting one to stick to the wall for a deal. However, if Dreim continues to take a long time to make up his mind about each deal, that setup could prove impossible.
Dreim resigned Oct. 18, enraged upon being implicated in a scouter bribery scandal for which he was later exonerated. Scouters set out to rehire Dreim, but ran into complications with a defiant, stubborn Dreim in negotiations and with a chef body who called Dreim haughty and conceited and which filed a pact recently to try to stop the negotiations.
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