Superiority Burger Elements Methods With Ashwin Deshmukh
Superiority Burger, the favored East Village restaurant, has dropped its managing associate, Ashwin Deshmukh, following a New York Occasions story a couple of community of people that have accused Mr. Deshmukh of stealing from them through the years.
In a letter to buyers on Tuesday, Brooks Headley, the chef at Superiority Burger, and Sheryl Heefner, the final supervisor, mentioned they’d parted methods with Mr. Deshmukh and introduced that they’d conduct an inner evaluate of the enterprise’s information.
Superiority Burger has been sued 3 times this yr: twice by an investor, June Kwan, who asserted that she had not been paid again for a $200,000 mortgage to Mr. Deshmukh; and as soon as by the restaurant’s builder, who claimed that Superiority Burger and Mr. Deshmukh had been in arrears. (Shortly after The Occasions reached out to Mr. Deshmukh about its unique story, Superiority Burger and Ms. Kwan agreed to settle her fits.)
The letter says that Mr. Deshmukh is “not an worker or concerned within the operation of Superiority Burger,” nevertheless it doesn’t handle whether or not he’s nonetheless financially concerned within the restaurant.
“We don’t anticipate finding wrongdoing,” the letter reads.
Mr. Headley and Ms. Heefner didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
A New York Occasions article final week charted greater than a decade of Mr. Deshmukh’s skilled life, and reported on the various people and companies he’s mentioned to have hustled. The article additionally particulars the way in which Mr. Deshmukh, a marketer from Pennsylvania, used his social connections and social media to burnish his personal model as a nightlife impresario concurrently lots of his companions started to suspect him of manipulation.
In a single case, Mr. Deshmukh offered himself for years because the proprietor of Williamsburg Pizza, and ran the store’s social media accounts, although he had invested solely a small amount of cash into the chain. (And far of it got here from different folks, in response to Williamsburg Pizza’s proprietor.)
Mr. Deshmukh denied most of the allegations within the article, with out offering specifics. He stays a associate at Jean’s, an unique downtown nightclub and restaurant.
