Anne Burrell hosts Secrets of a Restaurant Chef on the Food Network, and she has the skills to back it up – she was the executive chef at New York’s Centro Vinoteca restaurant. However, just because she made it to the top of her profession doesn’t mean she didn’t step on anyone to get there. Slashfood got their hands on documents relating to a lawsuit filed against Burrell by former employees:
According to the suit, rehashed in a dismissal motion, Burrell was hung up on Centro Vinoteca’s employees’ breasts; She told one employee that leaning over the bar was “slutty,” commented “repeatedly” on another employee’s cleavage and announced that a bartender had “saggy boobs,” creating a special “saggy boob” hand gesture to mock her. The complaint further states that Burrell suspended an employee for allegedly stealing a piece of cheese, claimed an employee faked an ovarian cyst and banged a pan when a manager urged her to be a better communicator.
Burrell is about to get a second Food Network show – Worst Cooks in America. Perhaps she can also get a gig appearing on a spinoff about America’s worst bosses?
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