"I would imagine nuts and crackers," she said.

[Miles Archer]

Here's Why Donald Trump's New DC Hotel May Be a Financial Flop

Trump had said his DC hotel would feature two high-end restaurants. He had originally signed up two celebrity chefs, José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian, to open highly anticipated restaurants in the hotel. Then Trump launched his presidential bid by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, and both restaurateurs backed out. Trump is now suing each of them. The ongoing litigation has generated heaps of bad press for Trump. The lawsuits, coupled with Trump's controversial statements on the campaign trail, have also made the project toxic to other well-known chefs who have apparently steered clear of the project.

Top Chef's Tom Colicchio, the owner of Craft and a number of other top restaurants, tells Mother Jones that he was approached by the Trump Organization after Andrés and Zakarian backed out. But he quickly turned down the offer. Colicchio says he was put off by the way the Trumps had treated Andrés, a friend, and by the GOP candidate's comments about immigrants.

Colicchio says the battle with Andrés has hurt Trump's standing in the restaurant community and Trump's comments on immigrants have made it tough to work with the reality television mogul. "He's clearly a racist and makes racist comments, and we have an industry that has always reached out to an immigrant population and built on the work of an immigrant population," Colicchio says. "I think that the remarks [Trump] makes would make it very difficult for anyone to stand up in front of their staff and want to be part of what he's doing."

Colicchio is just one of several chefs who declined to get involved with Trump's DC hotel. As a result, the hotel will open with no top-drawer destination restaurant. Instead, it will feature just one establishment: BLT Prime, a chain steakhouse that is not likely to be a major attraction for tourists or locals. The other planned restaurant space in the hotel has been turned into a conference room. At some point, a seasonal bar might open, Ivanka Trump said in a recent deposition in the Zakarian case, according to the Washingtonian. "I would imagine nuts and crackers," she said of its food offerings.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/donald-trumps-old-post-office-hotel-financial-flop

[pkdu]

1. and ...

[semby2]

2. Slogan

Nuts and Crackers would make a good Trump campaign slogan.

[Angry Dragon]

3. and a restaurant name

[bulloney]

6. Nuts and crackers are Trump's base.

[JaneQPublic]

7. And a description of his voters n/t

[Madam45for2923]

5. This Jose Andres?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2546473

[Lucinda]

9. Yep! n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Just can not imagine the

crap the Theme Restaurants go through in Trump Hotels. Especially the ones with percentage leases,who has the real numbers,sure as hell won't be Trump.