-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-A proposal to introduce a second Feast Fest per year that would have taken place in June and which surprisingly caught fire in the event's Organization Senate and was passed up to the Executive Board by a 26-24 vote was unanimously destroyed by that Board Tuesday.
The Executive Board, which includes Event Manager William Vanderbilt, Executive Assistants Arthur Ayeiy, Beryl Shady, and seven others, voted 10-0 against the proposal.
The proposal, after repeated attempts to introduce a second Feast Fest into November fizzled out due to logistical hurdles, called for a proposed second Fest to be positioned in June, halfway between two Thanksgivings, and to call it "the Halfgiving Feast Fest."
Shady called it "totally out of our event's spirit" and condemned it.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Aiber, Scouters at Odds
-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-As if the whirlwind of contract offers and panicked scouters swirling around Feast Fest tigress Lynn Avi's "1%" possibility of leaving before Thanksgiving 2013 weren't enough, scouters also struggled with contractual deals for Alexei Aiber.
Aiber's contract is not up yet, but it is at a critical hinging point. In 2008, Aiber was signed to a five-year deal with an option for 2013.
Now, the big question is whether Aiber will allow scouters to exercise that option. Aiber is a Feast Fest fixture (2012 will be his 15th Feast Fest) and a fan favorite, but the aging Aiber is considering "slowing down" and "caring for my ailing mother and my wife, who is battling MS." The comments sound uncannily similar to those of a fellow FF fixture and "Original 7" chef Marc Monde before he announced his choice to leave Feast Fest following the 2004 event.
Aiber says he "is 50/50" currently on whether he will leave or stay in 2013, but the scouters are pressing him hard to accept an offer. They slid toward Aiber a $21,447 bonus if he signs the option.
Aiber, however, says he won't be putting his John Hancock anywhere yet. "This is a decision I might not even make until next summer," Aiber said, and somewhat annoyingly added, "I think it's immature and unbusinesslike for the scouters to pressure me into making a decision so soon. Bonus or no bonus, I'll exercise the option only if it feels right."
Aiber refused a request from scouters to hold a private meeting between the two which would have been scheduled for Thursday morning.
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-As if the whirlwind of contract offers and panicked scouters swirling around Feast Fest tigress Lynn Avi's "1%" possibility of leaving before Thanksgiving 2013 weren't enough, scouters also struggled with contractual deals for Alexei Aiber.
Aiber's contract is not up yet, but it is at a critical hinging point. In 2008, Aiber was signed to a five-year deal with an option for 2013.
Now, the big question is whether Aiber will allow scouters to exercise that option. Aiber is a Feast Fest fixture (2012 will be his 15th Feast Fest) and a fan favorite, but the aging Aiber is considering "slowing down" and "caring for my ailing mother and my wife, who is battling MS." The comments sound uncannily similar to those of a fellow FF fixture and "Original 7" chef Marc Monde before he announced his choice to leave Feast Fest following the 2004 event.
Aiber says he "is 50/50" currently on whether he will leave or stay in 2013, but the scouters are pressing him hard to accept an offer. They slid toward Aiber a $21,447 bonus if he signs the option.
Aiber, however, says he won't be putting his John Hancock anywhere yet. "This is a decision I might not even make until next summer," Aiber said, and somewhat annoyingly added, "I think it's immature and unbusinesslike for the scouters to pressure me into making a decision so soon. Bonus or no bonus, I'll exercise the option only if it feels right."
Aiber refused a request from scouters to hold a private meeting between the two which would have been scheduled for Thursday morning.
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Avi Offers Elevated
-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Feast Fest tigress Lynn Avi had two additional offers thrown her way by Feast Fest Tuesday here in the middle of Fall Meeting & Conference Week.
Avi has been expressing "only an extremely slight consideration" toward dropping out of Feast Fest for 2013, as her contract expires, in order to return full-time to her restaurant Lala and also to potentially take up a television offer. Avi has said, "I don't quite know how I'll juggle all three at once if I accept that TV offer. I may not, but if it looks really appealing then I'd have to figure out how to make all three commitments work." Although she says that "the probability of me leaving Feast Fest is only about 1%", these comments mortified scouters when they were released Sept. 7. Thus, they rammed down two new contract offers on the heels of one issued Sunday night.
Avi, who will receive $887,463 this year, received a 5-year, $903,455-deal Sunday (all monetary figures are per-year figures, for example, $903,455 every year for five years, not $903,455 over five years).
Feast Fest followed up Tuesday afternoon by dishing out (no pun intended) $909,456, 6-year and, two hours later, $912,973, 5-year deals, the latter deal having options for both 2018 and 2019.
Avi has not yet formally responded to any of the offers,but she said Tuesday that "I don't want people to think that my lack of responses means I'm being greedy and waiting for the scouters to up the offer even more. Rather, I'm carefully taking time to think all this over."
The two sides cannot officially make a deal until the offseason in December, but reaching an agreement now would mean "we'd just have to sign the papers in December and then it'd be done with," so said Head Scouter Jim Dall.
-Feast Fest tigress Lynn Avi had two additional offers thrown her way by Feast Fest Tuesday here in the middle of Fall Meeting & Conference Week.
Avi has been expressing "only an extremely slight consideration" toward dropping out of Feast Fest for 2013, as her contract expires, in order to return full-time to her restaurant Lala and also to potentially take up a television offer. Avi has said, "I don't quite know how I'll juggle all three at once if I accept that TV offer. I may not, but if it looks really appealing then I'd have to figure out how to make all three commitments work." Although she says that "the probability of me leaving Feast Fest is only about 1%", these comments mortified scouters when they were released Sept. 7. Thus, they rammed down two new contract offers on the heels of one issued Sunday night.
Avi, who will receive $887,463 this year, received a 5-year, $903,455-deal Sunday (all monetary figures are per-year figures, for example, $903,455 every year for five years, not $903,455 over five years).
Feast Fest followed up Tuesday afternoon by dishing out (no pun intended) $909,456, 6-year and, two hours later, $912,973, 5-year deals, the latter deal having options for both 2018 and 2019.
Avi has not yet formally responded to any of the offers,but she said Tuesday that "I don't want people to think that my lack of responses means I'm being greedy and waiting for the scouters to up the offer even more. Rather, I'm carefully taking time to think all this over."
The two sides cannot officially make a deal until the offseason in December, but reaching an agreement now would mean "we'd just have to sign the papers in December and then it'd be done with," so said Head Scouter Jim Dall.
2013 Exhibition Schedule Released
The official schedule for the Feast Fest exhibitions for 2013 has been released, and, as expected, it includes the addition of a second international exhibition, and the first in Europe.
In October 2011, Lynn Avi signed a document saying she would agree to give up the annual exhibition at her restaurant Lala in 2013, in hopes of implementing European expansion. It is possible that the three Feast Fest chefs who currently hold exhibitions at their own restaurants--Avi, Jim McAllister, Joe Pasik, and (beginning in 2013) Daniel Mettling--would rotate relinquishing their own exhibition to conform with the European expansion. All of those four chefs say they agree with this plan.
The schedule is as follows:
*new venue
*Mon., Jan. 21 - The Dining Room, Yosemite, Ca.
Sun., Jan. 27 - Edelyn Cooking Arena, Punta Gorda, Fla.
Fri., Apr. 12 - Notes, Long Beach, Ca.
Tue., Jun. 4 - Myskvåard Cooking Arena, Zurich, Switzerland
Tue., Jul. 2 - Nø, Boston, Mass.
Sat., Aug. 31 - Kitchen Stadium, Tokyo, Japan
Mon., Oct. 28 - Edelyn Cooking Arena, Punta Gorda, Fla.
Sun., Nov. 3 - Windows on the Water, Morro Bay, Ca.
Edelyn Cooking Arena in Punta Gorda, Fla. will keep its position as the only venue hosting two separate exhibitions, but it will no longer open and close the exhibitional season. Instead, Daniel Mettling's "The Dining Room" in Yosemite National Park will open the season, with Edelyn's first exhibition coming six days afterward.
In addition, Windows on the Water and Edelyn's second exhibition's traditional positions -- WotW in Morro Bay hosting the second-to-last exhibition and Edelyn in Florida hosting the last, a system used every consecutive year dating back to 2004 -- will be switcharooed, with Windows closing out the exhibitional season, on Nov. 3, for the first time ever.
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In October 2011, Lynn Avi signed a document saying she would agree to give up the annual exhibition at her restaurant Lala in 2013, in hopes of implementing European expansion. It is possible that the three Feast Fest chefs who currently hold exhibitions at their own restaurants--Avi, Jim McAllister, Joe Pasik, and (beginning in 2013) Daniel Mettling--would rotate relinquishing their own exhibition to conform with the European expansion. All of those four chefs say they agree with this plan.
The schedule is as follows:
*new venue
*Mon., Jan. 21 - The Dining Room, Yosemite, Ca.
Sun., Jan. 27 - Edelyn Cooking Arena, Punta Gorda, Fla.
Fri., Apr. 12 - Notes, Long Beach, Ca.
Tue., Jun. 4 - Myskvåard Cooking Arena, Zurich, Switzerland
Tue., Jul. 2 - Nø, Boston, Mass.
Sat., Aug. 31 - Kitchen Stadium, Tokyo, Japan
Mon., Oct. 28 - Edelyn Cooking Arena, Punta Gorda, Fla.
Sun., Nov. 3 - Windows on the Water, Morro Bay, Ca.
Edelyn Cooking Arena in Punta Gorda, Fla. will keep its position as the only venue hosting two separate exhibitions, but it will no longer open and close the exhibitional season. Instead, Daniel Mettling's "The Dining Room" in Yosemite National Park will open the season, with Edelyn's first exhibition coming six days afterward.
In addition, Windows on the Water and Edelyn's second exhibition's traditional positions -- WotW in Morro Bay hosting the second-to-last exhibition and Edelyn in Florida hosting the last, a system used every consecutive year dating back to 2004 -- will be switcharooed, with Windows closing out the exhibitional season, on Nov. 3, for the first time ever.
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