See ya, Soul Daddy

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By Nads | Thursday, June 16, 2011 | 9:08 am | 4 Comments
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The winner of America’s Next Great Restaurant, Jamawn Woods, is shutting down two out of three of his Soul Daddy locations. That means Los Angeles and New York are dunzo, while the one at the Mall of America in Minnesota will remain open. Man, those poor restaurants didn’t even have a shot, they must have been empty! Opening anything is difficult, it sucks that those locations failed so quickly. That’s what happens when you have a bad product with good marketing.

The company that runs Soul Daddy lent out this statement:

“The realities of running a restaurant are very difficult, more so with multiple locations in multiple cities. After a careful review of the business model and the performance of the restaurants, we have decided that our best opportunity for Soul Daddy’s success is to focus our efforts on establishing a solid footing in one location, building the brand, and developing the operations from there.

While it has certainly been a difficult decision, we believe this is the best approach as we work toward ongoing success for Soul Daddy.”

Did anyone get a chance to try Soul Daddy?

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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.

4 Comments

  1. 1
    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted June 16, 2011 at 9:50 am

    I never got to eat the food, but I am granting Soul Daddy the privacy he needs during this difficult transition to a new phase of his business.

  2. 2
    nads
    Posted June 16, 2011 at 10:24 am

    crying.laughing.

  3. 3
    germgurl
    Posted June 16, 2011 at 10:51 am

    It’s not his fault, it’s the stupid investors… Chain eateries are OVER, true culture and value-adding happens in local, one-of-a-kind restaurants. American investors really need to get over their 80′s super-sized crap quantity over quality mentality!!

  4. 4
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:49 pm

    I never got a chance to go here in NYC and I’m lightweight mad that I never will. But I knew that Soul Daddy was gonna fail because:

    1. No fried chicken. What the fuck?
    2. Too much emphasis on being healthy…nobody else is concerned with that shit at a fast food restaurant. The key is to do like mcdonalds and pretend to be healthy and fresh while not actually doing it. If I want to eat healthy, I’ll cook some stuff at home, not go to a fast food restaurant.
    3. The location sucked. Nobody goes to South Street Seaport unless they’re specifically looking for/doing something. It’s not like 8th Avenue or Times Square, where people just stroll for the sake of strolling. And from what I heard, the food was not that good to where someone would go South Street Seaport again and again specifically to eat it.
    4. Those investors didn’t know what they were talking about.
    5. You can’t make soul food in a fast food way and expect it to taste right. You just can’t. They would have been much better off going for a more Chilli’s-type of restaurant than the McDonald’s thing they were going for.

    But anyway, I hope that he can make it work. I really liked Jamawn and his family is so cute.

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