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I first learned of this brouhaha in a thread, now deleted, right here on texaschlforum.com.

Lunatics are in good company nowadays?

all right! add it to the list of classifications I have been put into THIS MONTH!

Deplorables and Lunatics !!! dang all kinds of names! I'm losing track

SewTexas wrote:Deplorables and Lunatics !!! dang all kinds of names! I'm losing track

I just had to change my signature.

Flightmare wrote:

SewTexas wrote:Deplorables and Lunatics !!! dang all kinds of names! I'm losing track

I just had to change my signature.

bblhd672 wrote:

Flightmare wrote:

SewTexas wrote:Deplorables and Lunatics !!! dang all kinds of names! I'm losing track

I just had to change my signature.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:Something tells me the "owner's" revenue has not increased by the numbers he claims. If he cannot express himself without the vulgar comments, then it speaks volumes about his outlook and lack of respect for others. I think the video said he has been open for nine months. Let's look back in a year and see if this delightful follow is still in business.

Chas.

Unfortunately to many in that generation such vulgarity is just a natural form of speech, used for emphases. Often bolstered by articles such as "Why it’s a good sign if you curse a lot".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... rse-a-lot/

Note, I don't (well, rarely) use such profanity and personally believe it take more intelligence to express yourself without the vulgarity.

RoyGBiv wrote:From http://houston.culturemap.com/news/rest ... -campaign/ (bottom of page)

Pi Pizza has created a [name redacted] Pizza and will donate 100-percent of proceeds to The 100 Club

If I was local, I'd go in for a donation pizza if "100% of proceeds" are actually going to a very worthy cause... Seems like the thing to do.
I wonder what's on that pizza.. Crow?

That was some tough reading. Unbelievable how many people spun it and morphed it into something its not. The responses from the owner is what gets me the most. He likes his freedom, and the choices he has, but disrespects the Vets that fought and died for those rights. I do hope he is a man of his word and 100% of the proceeds will go where he claims.

huh, their, FB page was edited just now, while I was on it. the video was there, with comments, then, it was gone. No posts since Jan 2014. serious damage control.

what is posted on the internet, stays on the internet :)

I'm sure its all been cached, copied, backed up, and archived in many places :-0

The Facebook page is scrubbed squeaky clean now, they were bragging about their conquest of the gun crazies but now not so much.

I hope Anthony Calleo, (Anthony is the owner of the food truck who went into business with Lee Ellis,) makes it through all this unscathed. His business partner Lee Ellis can go enjoy his own company for all I care.

SewTexas wrote:huh, their, FB page was edited just now, while I was on it. the video was there, with comments, then, it was gone. No posts since Jan 2014. serious damage control.

And now the video is gone:



And now all posts have been cleared from Pi Pizza's Facebook page. It's completely blank:



Jusme, thanks. But I am no Internet sleuth. I can type "google.com" and know only enough to obey one of a detective's basic precepts: follow the money.

And I came up short in my last post. Turns out Lee Ellis's "Cherry Pie Hospitality," the business entity that includes Pi Pizza and other food businesses, is also very new...as in less than a year new. And effectively newer that that (below). Ellis registered Cherry Pie Hospitality LLC with the Secretary of State on 12/14/2015. This is all public record, as are the registered street addresses (an address east of Airline, west of I-45, and north of Stokes that looks like an old, industrial warehouse), the mailing address (a PO Box service in a fairly low-rent area of Southwest Houston), the Texas Taxpayer Number, and more.

Ellis was a founding partner of something called F.E.E.D. TX Restaurant Group...at least that's what the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Business Journal reported. However, no search of Texas Comptroller public accounts turns up any variation of that company name; it has to be registered under something else and doing DBA.

Regardless, Ellis formed Cherry Pie Hospitality LLC in December 2015 then, in April 2016, dropped a bombshell on his partners in whatever-it's-called, and disavowed himself of all knowledge of its actions.

Ellis evidently knew Bradley Ogden and arranged to assume his leases when Ogden left Houston, including Ogden's "Pour Society" in Memorial City Mall, and the new Pi Pizza brick-and-mortar. I'm not a smart guy, but acquiring the locations of failed restaurant businesses to start new restaurant businesses might cause the hair's on the nape of Gordon Ramsay's neck to perk.

Either Lee Ellis is phenomenally wealthy from other sources, or he's the fourth member of ZZ Top that we never knew about.



The guy is making very, very serious money commitments in a period of weeks, yet he has time to stick his boot in his mouth and make social media statements that even a 20-year-old college business student would know not to do.

Something in this whole picture ain't right. Maybe Ellis isn't the '60s perennial hippie he seems to be; maybe he won the Lottery at some point and is playing with nothing but house money. Dunno.

Right now, I'm worried about Anthony Calleo. He's the guy who bootstrapped his Pi Pizza foodtruck from nothing and gave it his blood, sweat, tears, and sleepless nights. For almost five years he grew a loyal and vocal following from that single truck. He earned local network TV segments from that single truck. He retired that truck this year after inking the deal with Lee Ellis.

Calleo is not the guy who caused this firestorm. But he may end up being the one who suffers most.

From anecdotal evidence, I get the notion that Lee Ellis doesn't really care. For Anthony Calleo, it's his life. I guarantee he has not slept in days.

I have no way to know. Maybe I'll go to the blasted restaurant and ask him. But if Calleo is fine with the Second Amendment, and the money-man Ellis is the only profanity-puking anti-constitutionalist, maybe there should be a GoFundMe campaign to get Calleo out from the travesty under which Ellis has buried him.

Skiprr wrote:...
Right now, I'm worried about Anthony Calleo. He's the guy who bootstrapped his Pi Pizza foodtruck from nothing and gave it his blood, sweat, tears, and sleepless nights. For almost five years he grew a loyal and vocal following from that single truck. He earned local network TV segments from that single truck. He retired that truck this year after inking the deal with Lee Ellis.

Calleo is not the guy who caused this firestorm. But he may end up being the one who suffers most.

From anecdotal evidence, I get the notion that Lee Ellis doesn't really care. For Anthony Calleo, it's his life. I guarantee he has not slept in days.

I have no way to know. Maybe I'll go to the blasted restaurant and ask him. But if Calleo is fine with the Second Amendment, and the money-man Ellis is the only profanity-puking anti-constitutionalist, maybe there should be a GoFundMe campaign to get Calleo out from the travesty under which Ellis has buried him.

Mmm hmm.

Food or bar business with partners? One w/ the dream, and somebody else with the money....it's a hard life with a crazy high failure rate. Self inflicted PR disasters are the last thing you need.