<div><div dir="auto">Bad behavior by the boss is not a good reason for lots of people who need the job to lose it. Mike Isabella’s wildly piggish behavior caused nearly a 1,000 jobs in the DMV to vanish. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But recently, other restaurant operators filled in the 42,000-sf gap left by Isabella’s food court closing lef in Tysons Corner and other similar operators are likely to come to Purple Lined CPMD. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A restaurant only thrives when it has good food and has some allure. Price is only part of it— what’s too expensive for one diner is a deal for another but quality and service always matter. (And rent at UMD’s The Hotel is like Manhattan without the deep-pocketed crowd! Until the Wallace Loh team gets a grip on rent pricing, bagels and coffee will be about the only food available in the place.) </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As far as Hank’s and Chef Geoff are concerned, there’s the question of years of back rent owed by the operator— the landlord reportedly took the big hit . And, his wife earns the dough in the family — CBS News transferred Norah O’Donnell from White House correspondent to co-host, CBS Morning News so it was griddle-to-go ... </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Certainly Hank’s was better than Korean chicken, nothing to sqawk about! — but University Park Town Center will have to de-ghost before something better comes along. It’s got everything a community could want— metro stop, new high-end living space, walkable, parking, a slew of movie screens, office buildings, community college, nice grocery store, and still the Wall Drug Store in South Dakota is busier!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:34 PM Dwight Holmes <<a href="mailto:dwightrholmes@gmail.com">dwightrholmes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, always sad to see a business close, *especially* when the stated reasons are as reported here. (In that sense, it's good news, I suppose, that we no longer tolerate such inexcusable behavior, at least in some parts of the marketplace.)<br></div><div>That being said, we went there once - and were shocked by the prices and small portions (and underwhelming quality of the food). We were certainly never returning. I've no way to know how much others shared our assessment or not.<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-5395587269856061441gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:29 PM Sarah Wayland <<a href="mailto:sarah.wayland@gmail.com" target="_blank">sarah.wayland@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Depressing. </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">WordPress.com</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donotreply@wordpress.com" target="_blank">donotreply@wordpress.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:16 PM<br>Subject: [New post] Kapnos Taverna Closing in College Park Dec. 1<br></div><br><br><u></u>
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The outpost of the once-popular D.C. restaurant chain inside the Hotel at the University of Maryland fell victim to owner Mike Isabella's Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
In recent months," </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">The outpost of the once-popular D.C. restaurant chain inside the <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.hyattsvillewire.com/2017/09/23/hotel-university-maryland-opens/" target="_blank">Hotel at the University of Maryland</a> fell victim to owner Mike Isabella's Chapter 11 bankruptcy.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">In recent months, Isabella has shut down restaurants due to declining traffic after reports that a <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/celebrity-chef-mike-isabella-is-sued-for-extraordinary-sexual-harassment/2018/03/19/4cc47bf4-27a4-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.0ecb18512db8" target="_blank">former general manager was suing him</a> for sexual harassment.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">In the lawsuit, Chloe Caras alleged that Isabella and his partners called her “bitch” and “whore,” commented on her body and touched her without permission. Isabella <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2018/05/07/mike-isabella-settles-federal-lawsuit-with-employee-who-alleged-sexual-harassment/?utm_term=.d6d9ea235887" target="_blank">settled for an undisclosed amount</a>, but his restaurants were disqualified from awards and removed from dining guides.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">Isabella was not the first celebrity chef to come to Route 1. Noted D.C. chef <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.hyattsvillewire.com/2012/12/20/an-interview-with-chef-geoff/" target="_blank">Geoff Tracy</a>, who has since moved to New York, <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.hyattsvillewire.com/2014/04/07/hanks-tavern-to-close-this-month/" target="_blank">ran Hank's Tavern and Eats</a> at University Town Center from 2008 to 2014.</p>
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