Leineken to challenge FF in suit

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Daved Leineken will challenge Feast Fest Events, Inc. in the lawbooks starting Monday and extending throughout the upcoming week, but he "has a very low chance of winning," analysts say.

Leineken will try to prove he did not bribe Brianna Galen-Ames in an attempt to get her to rejoin Feast Fest this past August, an action which result in Leineken's firing as a Feast Fest scouter. He is accusing FF of unfair dismissal.

However, the evidence is starkly stacked against him, experts say. "Galen-Ames has said repeatedly that she was bribed by Leineken," says Executive Official Arthur Ayeiy, "but we have hired an organization to administer a polygraph test just to ensure the validity of that statement. We believe her, but we need to be certain."

Leineken has made direct allusions to visiting the Galen-Ames home "with tender available," but he believe that the FF contract states a "bribe" must be accepted by a recipient in order to result in firing. Galen-Ames, Leineken insists, did not accept "even a penny of cash from my person or any friends of mine."

Leineken also wishes to rally for his belief that even if the money had been accepted by Galen-Ames it would fall under the category of "internegotiational monetary exchanges," which FF considers legal and which does not result in firing.

But, "we do not know how Leineken intends to make a case that the money he possessed was for a purpose that will fall into the legal IME category instead of the illegal bribery category," Ayeiy says.

Leineken has a right to file an unfair dismissal suit, but with the weight stacked against him the proceedings could last "only a day," but all five days of this upcoming week have been set aside should they be needed.






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NCA's "Best Brayton Hill Alumnus" Goes to Dreim

-New York
-FF chef Steven Dreim has won the NCA's award for Best Brayton Hill Alumnus, it was said very late Sunday.

Dreim attended Brayton Hill Univ. just outside Cincinnati, Oh., and the college is notable for producing "most notable chefs who hail from the American midwest."

Popularly, FF and Brayton Hill are usually connected by FF Assistant Head Sous-Chef Joe Pasik, but he had won the award five years in a row, from 2006 to 2010, disqualifying him from nomination. He can be nominated again in 2012.

"Dreim is a great chef and I am ecstatic he won the Brayton Hill award this year," Pasik said. "His connections to that hallowed college need acknowledgment, and I'm so glad he's gotten that."

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Jámes hopes surgery date will not hinder Feast Fest performance

-Los Angeles
-Could Jarólde Jámes become the first ever Feast Fest chef to, well, miss Feast Fest?

The possibility is slight, but still there, as the Mexican culinary maven must undergo foot surgery on "the only date the office had available," which is Mon., Nov. 21, just three days before Feast Fest.

Jámes ripped and shredded a muscle in his foot this past Wednesday in a home accident and had an ER visit. He was given a stilt, told to keep weight off the foot and book a surgery to repair the injured muscle.

The injury is not an actual threat to Jámes's health, but there are questions about whether he may be forced to sit out his debut Feast Fest if he has post-surgery foot pain that immobilizes him from the fast paced action of the Feast Fest floor.

Jámes also worries about the potential negative prospects of the event. "My contract is one-year, so if I get paid without even participating in the main Feast Fest event on Thanksgiving, that'll look bad and hinder my chances of getting re-signed for 2012," he explained. "The worst case scenario is that I never get to participate in Feast Fest on the Real Big Day. I don't want to have a one-year career just in exhibitions. What would the training of those have been for if I can't cook on Thanksgiving?"

His doctor says the operation should have him back on his injured right foot "in a few days," but was hazy about how many days "a few" signified.

"I'll see how things go," Jámes says. "If I can walk around on both feet effectively, even if it's painful, I'm doing it. Don't care what the docs say. I can't miss this, I'm too excited!"

Jámes is more or less guaranteed to miss the vital "dress rehearsal mock Feast Fest" on Tues., Nov. 22, one day after his surgery. "Hopefully, if I can participate on Thanksgiving, missing the mock runthrough on Tuesday won't take too much away from my culinary effectiveness."



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Galen-Ames Declines VIP Treatment

-Chicago
-Brianna Galen-Ames notified Feast Fest Event Organizers Friday that she does not wish to sit in a special "luxury seat" and have her presence announced on the Feast Fest scoreboard when she attends the event as a spectator on Nov. 24.

If Galen-Ames, 16, is re-signed by Feast Fest for the 2012 event, 2011 will be the only year of her career where she was a spectator.

Due to a harsh response from colleagues and fans in regard to her potential re-signing, Galen-Ames does "not want to elicit a potential harsh and dangerous outcry of a response" if she is given VIP treatment, and especially if she is announced to the crowd on the kitchen balcony scoreboard.

"I want to blend in with all the other attendees," she said. "I love the VIP treatment, but for my personal safety I think that should be avoided."

Event organizers assured Galen-Ames that her request could be met.

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Report of Scouting Summit Uses Scare Tactics Involving TV Ratings to Plump Galen-Ames Efforts - says little about Ainenl

-Montreal
-Head Scouter Jim Dall released the Official report for the Scouting Summit in Montreal from Nov. 1-2 late in the workday Friday.

The report, written in collaboration by Jim Dall and Scouters Mike Angsten and RosaLinda Meschyel, spoke little on the matter of Claudien Ainenl, relegating negotiations with him to "mere fruitless fluff" and "a waste of the time of all the good scouters at this event." It also wrote that "although nothing will be decided or confirmed at this time, our chances of pursuing Mr. Ainenl in the offseason have greatly diminished."

It then went on for seven other pages on the "absolute importance" of re-signing Brianna Galen-Ames for 2012. Galen-Ames, who participated in the summit via webcam from her central Illinois home due to a broken ankle, wanted to raise the maximum contract offer from $1.5 million/year to $2 million a year. Though Scouters refused, they did say they would undergo intense negotiations "of other contractual aspects" to please Galen-Ames. The report elaborated on this: "The talents and monetary importance of this chef are beyond measure, such that we will take measures as drastic as possible as long as they do not interfere with something as sacred as the offer roof."

The report then took on an apocalyptic tone, predicting "all-systems-failures" and "total loss of interest in the event of a certain demographic" if Galen-Ames were not to be signed. "The 30-45-age female demographic will go entirely down the tubes this Thanksgiving with Galen-Ames not on the team. There will be a guaranteed drop of 31% in this demographic and we will need to re-sign her for 2012 to recover from that."

Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt shooed the remarks in the report away, calling them "inflated, biased and meaningless figures."




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