Jose Garces investors sue to oust him from 3 restaurants
The early investors in Jose Garces’ first three restaurants — Amada, Village Whiskey, and Tinto — on Monday filed suit in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, seeking to remove the chef from his managerial control of those restaurants and to appoint a temporary receiver to operate them.
Lawyers for Spinner Family Holdings and food distributor James Sorkin accuse Garces and his representatives of misappropriating millions of dollars of cash and assets.
They also fired back at him for dismissing their criticisms in an interview with the Inquirer last week, during which Garces acknowledged financial problems and suggested that a bankruptcy filing was one option that was being explored.
A representative of Garces on Monday labeled the claims as “false and erroneous.”
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