Famous Food Restaurant: Closed For Business

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By Nads | Friday, October 7, 2011 | 10:15 am | 6 Comments

Lemon Basket, the restaurant that was born from VH1‘s Famous Food shut down after five months of business. This news is not shocking whatsoever. I don’t know why networks think it’ll be a good idea to do a show opening a restaurant (for the show’s purpose). Do they think it’ll take off and they can profit share?

Restaurants are hard work…unless the business is already established and then they do a show about–different story…but to open a restaurant that’s born off a trashy reality show with every reality has-been running it: dumb idea!

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

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featherhead

Posted October 7, 2011 at 10:44 am

Restaurants are hard work…unless the business is already established and then they do a show about–different story…but to open a restaurant that’s born off a trashy reality show with every reality has-been running it: dumb idea! They did that one – Saddle Ranch. Now it makes sense that Dinyell has been back to Jersey.
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sheesh

Posted October 7, 2011 at 11:07 am

I believe the saying goes…
“How do you make a million in the restaurant business….start with 10 million.”
That Prostitution Whoare didn’t stand a chance.
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lOS ANGELES 1993

Posted October 7, 2011 at 4:23 pm

Saddle Ranch was around way before they did the reality TV show.
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featherhead

Posted October 7, 2011 at 4:46 pm

@IOS ANGELES, there was a reality show last year (VH-1 I think), about Saddle Ranch and it’s employee’s. It was sad, but I watched anyway. Tmundra recapped if you want to look at the archives.
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nads

Posted October 7, 2011 at 7:20 pm

@lOS ANGELES – Yes it was…I got roofied there when I was 22. ha. It was a douchebag place then, and it still is now…but they do have bottomless mimosas!
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JuneSummer

Posted October 9, 2011 at 1:16 pm

Did the ass that did that to you land in jail or is he still out there doing the same or worse to others? Please say “Jail” or “hell”. Oh, wait. I don’t think hell exists. Say “jail”, please.