You Will Anyway: They get offers

Thursday, January 17, 2019

They get offers

The owner of Alinea, the highest-rated fine dining restaurant in Chicago, has invited the college football national champion Clemson University Tigers to experience “what an actual celebration dinner should be” and promised a meal there would “be worth it.”

The invitation follows the White House celebration for the football team, where players were served fast food from Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's and Domino's Pizza.

The Hill

Let me fix that: Where Trump paid for and served fast food..."

According to Eater Chicago, Alinea is the only restaurant in Chicago to earn a full three-Michelin star rating. The Michelin star designation comes from the Michelin Red Guide, which is published every year and awards three stars for excellence to very few establishments.

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Kokanas said he and his team members know how to “appropriately” throw a celebration for “the appropriate occasion," and said the team could expect "like maybe four or five suckling pigs roasted properly, and the Roister fried chicken" if they were to dine with his restaurant.

“We’re not billionaires, but we can afford to do it the right way,” Kokonas continued. “I’m trying to make this as nonpolitical as possible. For me, this isn’t about politics. It’s about something we can do to correct something I thought was just wrong. That’s it.”

What? Not for the publicity? I'm sure.

Ayesha Curry, the wife of Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry, invited Clemson University's football team to her restaurant for a "real feast and celebration."

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"[International Smoke] will gladly feed the Clemson Tigers any day," Ayesha Curry tweeted, referencing the restaurant she helped launch with Chef Michael Mina.

"A real feast and celebration. No 10 cent dipping sauces on silver platters."

The Hill

“Good Morning America” host Michael Strahan on Tuesday promised to feed the 15-0 Tigers lobster. On him.

He invited the team to New York City for the feast.

“We’re gonna take care of you,” Strahan, a Hall of Famer who played for the New York Giants, said on the show. “We’re gonna give you the proper meal that you deserve because that was one great game, a great accomplishment.”

HuffPo

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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