{"id":639,"date":"2006-01-30T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/deep_pockets.html"},"modified":"2006-01-30T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T18:02:25","slug":"deep_pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/deep_pockets.html","title":{"rendered":"Deep Pockets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t restaurants have slim profit margins? Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/61121.htm\">some don&#8217;t think so<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Manhattan Realtor claims she got a nasty surprise at Jean Georges Vongerichten&#8217;s swank three-star restaurant in Columbus Circle when she bit into a blackberry and chomped down hard on a small black pebble.<\/p>\n<p>Joanna Cutler claims she bit the berry hard enough to shatter a bridge during the meal on Feb. 5, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Cutler &#8212; whose suit describes the pebble as a &#8220;pit&#8221; &#8212; claims she had to undergo emergency oral surgery and get dental implants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have good taste, perhaps not in dessert,&#8221; said Cutler, who runs Joanna Cutler Real Estate.<\/p>\n<p>In her lawsuit, filed Jan. 19 in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Cutler accuses Jean Georges restaurant, the crown jewel in Vongerichten&#8217;s culinary empire, of serving her the bad berry in a fruit plate. She is seeking $500,000 &#8212; a hefty tab, even for the famed French culinary master.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a big claim for a $16 dessert,&#8221; Vongerichten told The Post.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t restaurants have slim profit margins? Apparently some don&#8217;t think so: A Manhattan Realtor claims she got a nasty surprise at Jean Georges Vongerichten&#8217;s swank three-star restaurant in Columbus Circle when she bit into a blackberry and chomped down hard on a small black pebble. Joanna Cutler claims she bit the berry hard enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}