The Real Jerk calls in the lawyers (well, one of them) to fight eviction
Ever since the The Real Jerk’s new landlord told the Caribbean resto to close up and move on, owners Ed and Lily Pottinger have shown they’re as good at marshalling community sentiment as they are at serving up jerk chicken and roti. First they went the protest and online petition route. Now the pair has hired a lawyer to seek an injunction that would delay the eviction. “I’d prefer to sit back and relax and run my restaurant,” Ed told the Toronto Star, “but if it means it may be taken away from me, you’ve got to get savvy quick and come out swinging.” Lawyer Albert Formosa had better work swiftly—the eviction notice, served by Bill Mandelbaum of Buckingham Properties, tells the restaurateurs to skedaddle by January 31. Which is tomorrow. Read the entire story [Toronto Star] »
It’s obvious that Ed would “prefer to sit back and relax” or else he might have tried to buy his building sometime in the last 22 years!
I’ve been a regular of the Real Jerk despite the poor service. (They’ve screw up my order and did not even bring me a replacement once ). It has always been a love hate relation ship. We only go there for the food. When they announced the closure, we went there. Got in at 6:15pm, sat at 6:40… waited for our food… and kept waiting… until we decide to leave around 8:40pm (pregnant woman was starving)!
The food is good, too bad there is no competition in the east end :(…