‘Next Great Restaurant’ Winner — Chipotle Sabotaged My Restaurants
His restaurants failed miserably just two months after opening their doors — and now, the winner of ” America’s Next Great Restaurant ” is blaming the entire culinary disaster … on Chipotle . Jamawn Woods tells TMZ, Chipotle — an investor in the NBC reality show — was supposed to provide a management team to run his three Soul Daddy restaurants for one year … but they really screwed the pooch. According to Jamawn, Chipotle hired a bum management team with NO experience cooking soul food OR running a soul food restaurant — and his restaurants tanked as a result … closing soon after. J hasn’t filed any legal papers yet — but he’s telling friends … the show owes him $46,000 for a year’s worth of salary … and still hasn’t paid a dime. A rep for Chipotle tells TMZ, “The Soul Daddy restaurants were generating significant negative cash flows and, after a careful review of the business, the investor group made the decision to close the restaurants.” But there’s a light at the end of the tunnel — sources tell TMZ, Jamawn and Chipotle are currently hammering out a settlement deal.