- According to a former chef, BLT Prime, the Trump DC restaurant hotel, often got rotten products.
- According to the Washingtonian, food suppliers gave the cook “rotten products and cuts of meat.”
- Rudy Giuliani was regularly at the restaurant and treated his table like a workplace.
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While the BLT Prime restaurant in the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC was marketed for its exclusive sensitivity, it often received spoilage products, the former executive chef of the steakhouse told Washingtonian magazine.
While former President Donald Trump was out of office and living at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, several employees expressed their experiences at the hotel.
After Bill Williamson, the executive chef of BLT Prime at the Trump International Hotel from February 2018 to March 2020, joined the restaurant, food suppliers with whom he has successfully collaborated in the past suddenly sent him rotten products and parts of meat. fish, “according to the Washingtonian.
“I can guarantee that someone in the warehouse who chooses this product has seen where it’s going and like, ‘Oh, f — it, give them this stuff,'” Williamson said.
Former CEO Shawn Matijevich, who worked at BLT for part of 2017 and 2018, said a green supplier he used to work with no longer worked with him, saying they prevented ‘conscience’ from to serve the hotel restaurant.
Williamson also noted that Rudy Giuliani was a regular at BLT Prime and had a regular table, despite doing more work than studying the restaurant menu.
“It was about his office,” he told the Washingtonian. “He did more paperwork there than eating. Some days he was there all day. ‘
While the coronavirus pandemic forced the restaurant to close temporarily last year, supporters of the former president were regularly spotted as the restrictions were gradually lifted, forcing staff to ask guests to use their face masks.
“I doubt so many restaurants in the city have to put up with adults rolling their eyes when we ask them to put on their masks,” said a former employee.
According to the magazine, several employees are worried that they may not be able to find new jobs if they list the restaurant on their resumes.