-Marina del Rey, Calif.
-Feast Fest announced at 11:30 p.m. Saturday that they had successfully signed Ondrej Yiivititimaev and Kevin Olschmeire for 2014 before Friday night's 11:59 p.m. deadline a day earlier.
The Scouting Department was following policy that states a 24 hour waiting period must elapse before a signing is publicly announced. Yiivititimaev was signed at 11:24 p.m. Friday, and Olschmeire was signed six minutes later. The signings were announced jointly as scouters had been working with both chefs late into Friday night to get deals worked out. The Scouting Offseason officially ended at 11:59 p.m. Friday night; Feast Fest still could've signed them afterward, but they wouldn't have been eligible to participate until November 2015.
Head Scouter Jim Dall called the dual signings "a fantastic note with which to end our ten months of arduous work."
Yiivititimaev and Olschmeire become the eighth and ninth chefs signed to Feast Fest this offseason. Four chefs left or resigned, making for a net gain of five chefs and a total roll call of 72 for Thanksgiving, the first time the event has cracked seventy chefs.
Olschmeire's signing was conducted "pleasantly," Dall said, with minimal arguments or rebuttals. Olschmeire signed a $196,045, two-year contract for the eighth line of power, staggered in 2015 for $199,874 and a potential promotion to the seventh line.
Yiivititimaev, the more prized of the two chefs, held out more along with his persistent agent. Negotiations nearly came to a halt over how to divide travel expenses, which will be heftier for the Russian-based Yiivititimaev than they are for most American chefs. Feast Fest insisted that Yiivititimaev's camp pay 45% of the travel expenses, instead of Yiivititimaev's proposed 40%, and the two sides compromised by giving Yiivititimaev a $482,000 contract, the highest amount Feast Fest was willing to fork over. The Russian will start out on the fifth line of power and is signed on a two-year deal through Feast Fest 2015. He will receive anywhere from $482,000 to $496,000 in 2015; those details will be sorted out, and the travel expenses revisited, in December. "This was about getting Ondrej signed for this November, and we have that done now. He's happy, we're happy," Dall said. "We have both agreed to return to the little details after Thanksgiving and to fine-tune this contract in a way that will make him eligible for many future years here."
Both Yiivititimaev and Olschmeire were declared rostered and eligible for the Oct. 26 cooking exhibition in Punta Gorda, Fla.
-Feast Fest announced at 11:30 p.m. Saturday that they had successfully signed Ondrej Yiivititimaev and Kevin Olschmeire for 2014 before Friday night's 11:59 p.m. deadline a day earlier.
The Scouting Department was following policy that states a 24 hour waiting period must elapse before a signing is publicly announced. Yiivititimaev was signed at 11:24 p.m. Friday, and Olschmeire was signed six minutes later. The signings were announced jointly as scouters had been working with both chefs late into Friday night to get deals worked out. The Scouting Offseason officially ended at 11:59 p.m. Friday night; Feast Fest still could've signed them afterward, but they wouldn't have been eligible to participate until November 2015.
Head Scouter Jim Dall called the dual signings "a fantastic note with which to end our ten months of arduous work."
Yiivititimaev and Olschmeire become the eighth and ninth chefs signed to Feast Fest this offseason. Four chefs left or resigned, making for a net gain of five chefs and a total roll call of 72 for Thanksgiving, the first time the event has cracked seventy chefs.
Olschmeire's signing was conducted "pleasantly," Dall said, with minimal arguments or rebuttals. Olschmeire signed a $196,045, two-year contract for the eighth line of power, staggered in 2015 for $199,874 and a potential promotion to the seventh line.
Yiivititimaev, the more prized of the two chefs, held out more along with his persistent agent. Negotiations nearly came to a halt over how to divide travel expenses, which will be heftier for the Russian-based Yiivititimaev than they are for most American chefs. Feast Fest insisted that Yiivititimaev's camp pay 45% of the travel expenses, instead of Yiivititimaev's proposed 40%, and the two sides compromised by giving Yiivititimaev a $482,000 contract, the highest amount Feast Fest was willing to fork over. The Russian will start out on the fifth line of power and is signed on a two-year deal through Feast Fest 2015. He will receive anywhere from $482,000 to $496,000 in 2015; those details will be sorted out, and the travel expenses revisited, in December. "This was about getting Ondrej signed for this November, and we have that done now. He's happy, we're happy," Dall said. "We have both agreed to return to the little details after Thanksgiving and to fine-tune this contract in a way that will make him eligible for many future years here."
Both Yiivititimaev and Olschmeire were declared rostered and eligible for the Oct. 26 cooking exhibition in Punta Gorda, Fla.
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