Turkey Leg Hut's co-founder fired for allegedly mismanaging money
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2024
- The turmoil at the popular Houston restaurant, the Turkey Leg Hut, is being played out for all to see. FOX 26 Business Reporter Tom Zizka reports on the co-founder being fired, staff being laid off, and paychecks going missing.
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I hate the word mismanagement of money. Called it what it is. It’s called stealing
😂😂facts
exactly -- heard today this place is done.
Glad to see it go. another example of bad behavior from the SAME group.
I would not eat at a place with disgruntled employees who havent been paid for weeks.
Right
What you said
This thinking will put them under. Customers don't have anything to worry about. It's employees stealing that happens when they're not getting paid.
@@marvelousmarvin4th lmfao. Guess u don't know the history of disgruntled employees and how they can play with your food. And if anyone is setting the business up for failure it's management. But do you and sorry im also not going to support a business just off the fact that they are not paying their employees and stringing them along including handing them bounced checks.
@darianbirckett1933 To each their own. You're right. I don't know all the ins and outs, really none of us do.
When you get that popular that quickly it is a MUST that you hire an accountant and financial advisor. Let a 3rd party that you are paying handle the finances
100%. I always said that if I hit the lottery for millions, the first thing I'm doing is hiring a financial advisor .
You gotta watch your financial advisor they will steal your money to.
Aka comptroller
They steal too you better be disciplined and take classes
No way in hell I’m working somewhere and not getting paid on time. He said 6 weeks smh. No way
I mean you can listen to that voice and tell he’s slow
Ok, so hear me out. I had this happen. I'm not slow or anything they just kept promising that it would get better, and I honestly felt bad for the patients. We were on the news too, but I finally, of course, was compensated to a certain extent. It's just a tough situation, and I'm working for a whole other company making more money, so it worked out, but my sister Said, the same thing you did. She called me dumb as hell too 😂😂
Especially how they grift customers for their food.
@@derekmoore3105
"I mean you can listen to that voice and tell he’s slow"
Which in itself is more of a reason for the Business repugnant behavior, shameful.
Didn’t even ask to have his voice changed 😂 definitely slow
They should put one of their $100k+ cars up for sale instead of layoffs and not paying their staff. They need staff.
EXACTLY! That guy wants to act above his pay grade buying up all them cars and then basically tanked the business
Lol they could afford it they just had a employee stealing happens all the time
They fired him with all the cars he gonna be selling them quick to all the UA-camrs lol
Yeah you talking about millions of dollars
I quit TLH last year because of late or short checks. Mrs Nakia is a great loyal owner and human being. Now ask for her husband he let celebrity, greed and women go to his head. I’m waiting for the world to see what ppl in Houston already know. I’m a just pray Mrs Nakia finds someone better.
I don't understand how we build successful business and then can't control ourselves and run things right.
How is someone great if they wasn’t paying you?
Aww, this is sweet of you to speak of her this way. ❤
@moblack5883 Because the people she worked with were scumbags, as a result it put her in a hole.
Nakia is that you 😂
6 weeks for $1000? Bruh... you'd make better money pushing carts at walmart
😂😂😂
He can make more money as a bathroom attendant at Buccees😉
he might have a record
That's exactly what i say to wait staff who complain about low or no tip customers after they have worked hard for them. That's on you because there are plenty of guaranteed wage jobs.
He said more than not $1000
She should have known he was messing off all the money buying all them stupid cars trying to show off for the whole world instead of using the money to build a strong business foundation.
That be the problem with some people nowadays, they want to show off for social media when their business isn’t right!!!
So the HUSband is just another Tim Norman aka “Welcome To Sweetie Pies”??
Exactly 💯💯💯
@@gwen1060 You ain’t never lied. KCMO 816
Instead of building the generational wealth black people keep talking about. Yeah, right.
I worked as a cook at TLH and their was so much drama! Trucks delaying produce, we had expired meat for a week and no new shipments. We were not paid for almost a month and I could not take the drama anymore and quit. Nakia and Lynn would always be Drunk and Arguing and yelling all of the time. I just walked out on my lunch after I got my last check and quit.
😬😬
good as you should have i can see from far thats an unprofessional buisness thats why i never even went to eat there. its going to shut down eventually its only a matter of time
Sounds like they lost their distributor.
Omg
@alphasierra4676 The white man knew we didn't have enough sense to handle money nor the vote. This fool donkey black man has torn down with his own hands his family's generational weakth.
6 weeks and no pay, owed $1,000. U sir need a raise 😂😅😂😅
Or another job 😄sheesh!!!
Probably a server
Let's not pretend hourly food & beverage employees were making 6 figures.
@@doctordl7757 Lets not forget poor people get charged late charges and interest for not paying bills on time.
6 weeks and 1000$ means he a garbage runner
One word to sum it up: Greed!
Well they probably finna shut down soon
Exactly
Sad.....He need to sale all them damn cars and pay people.
😂 facts I was thinking the same thing 😅
@MoneyVisions93 yes straight clown
Exactly
I'd REPO them cars til I get my $$$
The department of labor will put a lien on his business and cars. The department of labor will get their money but the employees will never see a dime. It happened to me too at Bourbon St. Daiquiri 2 years ago
Never heard of a founder being fired by a "management company" in my life.
Sometime when you have a company making big money you have board of directors
@@philipfranklin8273 I see. Well if someone cultivated a company from the beginning then those board of directors better had been there at that same time or the founder should never put themselves in a situation where they could be fired. Big money or not. That's like Elon Musk getting fired from Tesla
@@philipfranklin8273 Don't bother to reply. They no nothing about business.
When you own something, if it fails or goes down or loses money that's completely on you. But to be able to get dismissed by an outside source, not feasible.
It IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH. 👀😬😳🙄🤨🫣🤐
Spending money faster than making it is always cause for a disaster.
I remember when I went there for the first time. That place was packed. I had to wait for at least a half hour to 45 minutes to get seated. The waiting area was very nice, it was outside ( the weather was nice), and the music was playing you could order drinks while waiting. Very nice atmosphere. It’s a shame to see how it looks now. It looks like a ghost town, there was hardly anyone there. The food was very good. Wanted to go back there when I came back to Houston. Sadly it looks like it maybe closed by the time I get back there.
This place has had more drama than the Jerry Springer show...
I know right. Is it a restaurant or a soap opera? Not really sure.
@@salorchi84
😂 LOL
A certain element of the population lives in dramatic fashion in society and we see it every evening on the news, or at least we used to when the news was allowed to show you mugshots and names.
@justlookingaround I think drama is a lifestyle and addiction
U got that right...@@justlookingaround
I wonder if all that money went into all those fancy cars and trucks?
This! AND all the flow slowing😬
Financial literacy is required in these businesses for minorities. 2 week delay!! Their bills won’t delay
You better believe it 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Naw the brother is doing illegal $#!+, ain't that many damn turkeys in the world.
Spending all that money on cars!!
Rick ross car show a home wrecker lol. 😂
@@kingshark3503 in my Rick Ross voice HUUUHHH lmfao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I hate that they threw away a great legacy, husband and wife. Sad😢😢😢
Once a bully always a bully 😂
They? Him you mean
Turns out the co-founder was just a Jive Turkey!😉
Shouldn't the people managing the money be the ones to get fired or have their paychecks delayed instead of the ones at the bottom serving and making the food?
Key word "MANAGING" The Money, You answered your own question ASKING it...
@@dstaff7373 every Wakandanite is an "expert" in "wealth management"
Ain't that some BS.. it's always the ones at the bottom..but they don't understand the bottom people are the ones keeping the business going basically the backbone.
@leelandglover7777 Probably feels Great 👍 Being GEEKED up on multiple Designer Drugs, Beautiful Models Drunk everywhere chilling on a MULTI million dollar, Yahyt 💵. All On the Backs Of the Working SCUMBAGS that can't afford thier Filthy Existence of a Home... This is Thier Mentality and Does sound Appealing depending on the Drugs n type of Models around...
You pay your best employees first. Your worst employees second and yourself last.
Man, I hope they can pull it together for the sake of the employees.
Their going through a divorce “That’s why”
That's their problem.
Working with family in certain cultures 99% of the time end negatively. We just can't seem to work together for the betterment of the community and family.
Aint no damn community yall need to get off it... America gonna make sure you dont have one. Youre black nd youre going to be what america says you are..broken.
Lynn spent all the money on cars... Smh🤦🏾♂️
Says you?
And padding his pockets!!!
@@pastathemechanic7536 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@pastathemechanic7536no dumb dumb, says the youtube videos he made 😂😂 You must be new to this
6 weeks of work = $1,000 😳
Right? WTF kind of pay he was getting?!?!? 6 weeks should be a couple racks
Maybe he was part time
@@shanny3938 I feel it still should be more than 1,000.00
Not eating there. Can't do right by your employees is an easy no go, people have kids, they show up and do their job and you go a month and half without paying them? ESPECIALLY right after Christmas time when people really need the money.
Unh unh! Y'all keep supporting. She is righting the ship, and she even went public with it. I hope she does ten times better than before!
They probably should sell it will never be the same
@@regrich8795 exactly
They owe Sysco , owe employees , internal power control. RIP TL.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...⚰️🥀
🤔
Wow. Thanks for telling me they get their supplies from trash ass sysco. Lmao
lol I sell food for a distributor and that hits home. Trying to chase checks from customers not willing to pay after they take and use product from the distributor and profit off of it. It’s been the worst in 2023 as far as customers struggling to pay
@@gabandrant4958 I heard that they wasn't paying there vendors...Ouch!
Me and my wife drove past here a few times and it looked dark and the energy was like Hell tbh. They also wasn't feeling the homeless around the block from them. So God said he will expose all these evil crooks. Pray for everyone to repent of their sins and come to Jesus Christ
So he started at the bottom with folks with minimal control and left those at the top to continue with business as usual ie politicians hmmm
The restaurant business is one of the hardest business to be in. If you showboating yea the money is going somewhere else instead of where it needs to go.
It seems like some people just don't want this restaurant to succeed for their own devious reasons
I know a lot of ignorance. Comments should have been turned off. We all make mistakes . Prying she the owner works this out, she really is a kind ❤ person
People don't mind success. It's the stealing they got a problem with.
yeah, like the ex-husband
They are the reason their business is failing.
Another Turkey Hut controversy? Yikes
They been in the news for some sort of negative reason every other year since they been in business.
@@p2a0p2e0r1 true story
Why would you put your business’s business out there like that?
almost x husband
My people are so embarrassing.
Now you know 🥷 can’t have 💩
This doesn't go for everyone damn
Can't have nothing nice!!!!! 🤬
You sound just like the racists you complain about.
We all seen this coming after not paying them venders
They're acting like jive turkeys letting that business go on down the drain. Bad timing for it all.
Lol, I see what you did there 😂
Man, 2024 is definitely going down in the record book. SMH. It’s only February.
This is what happens when you don't create a good business plan. They had a gold mine, but greed and bad desicions are quickly destroying this business.
They still owe their vendors. They made millions. This is what not to do. And they are still open.
6 weeks w/o a paycheck and is only owed $1,000?? Thats crazy, he needs to find a new job!
This is when you so concerned about the company that you did not keep up with your monthly business finances...I see it with business owners all the time...if you are in business...LOOK at your financials EACH month even if you have an accountant!
Also never go in business with family!
You have been warned!
I’m not surprised!!!! Lyn is the type of dude that just got in his own way! Dude didn’t know if he wanted to run a restuarant or a car garage! I believed the wife from the beginning! Dude was just too in the way all the time. I hope Nikita stays safe! I can see Lyn harming her and himself!
I could never understand his raspy voice 🤔
How do you go 6 weeks without pay?
Straight stupid. They’ll never see that money. I would’ve quit on my first missing check.
He must have a bunch of money saved up. I did hear the tips are good there since they add 20 percent gratuity to everyone’s bill.
@@temikalomas or a second job because even with 20% u still have to pay the bus boys and bartenders at the end of shift
Fr I'm out after day one 😂
@@michigangrown-inoutdoor8843 cause who this for!
WoW...this is saaaad....love this place...use to always hit it up whenever I was in H-Town...
Many businesses open, many businesses close.. usually the public is not privy to the details of why.
For some reason ALL the details relating to TLH are newsworthy 🤔
Darnett!!! Its unfortunate this couple couldn't make it past their challenges. Many where inspired by their perceived business success. Come on bro, fight for your family. Leave them distractions alone!!!!
Everyone needs to quit
Typical🙄
Sounds like she doesn't want to give up half of the business so she is striking first. Lol.
He’s a felon so none of it is in his name anyway I’m sure.
You should not give up on the money thats yours.
I have a feeling inside of a year we will find out who truly was the brains behind the business
Exactly
If he gone, than someone knows what they are doing.
Now it’s a matter of trying to play catch up because all profits that were thought to be a asset, are gone.
I can bet it's the wife's brains that started the business. Then , like always , you know who dragged her down out of greed , most likely for other women . When will we learn ? 😢
@cocoace7587 Horribly Wrong... Go Do Some Actual Research Instead Of Spewing Feminist Propaganda.
Nobody is the brains here. Lynn been buying too many cars. This business has had money problems every year. It'll be back to a food truck soon.
Employee doesn't want to show his face. Caption states "Courtney, employee owed money' yeah thats pretty anonymous 😂😂
Right
Exactly. Everyone definitely knows who he is now.
It was a fake name
It's amazing how the news supposed to be investigative reporting but they don't do much investigating he's not a co-founder that's his wife Soul business by herself he's not on any paperwork owning that business he was in prison when she started that damn business
Is this Wendy Williams part 2 👀😳
Smh trickin.....
News loves to report about trouble in paradise lol
6 weeks for free is crazy and 1k for 6 weeks even crazier
🤦🏾♂️ Damn, we gotta do better when we get in position, power I pray these brotha’s & sistas shake back & get right 💯
They are out of luck.
That's why setting up your articles of organization is very important. He so dumb she put herself in place to make all the power moves while he out here flossing not knowing she was playing chess the entire time. Educate yourself people!
Exactly what I was thinking…
You are speaking facts. Dude is the face of Turkey Leg Hut. I always thought he was too flashy. I believe the IRS is going to be knocking on the door soon.
He was in Jail when the restaurant got started, so he was never really on the paperwork when the business upgraded to a store front.
In my opinion. Because The Ex Wife. Made a Mistake in Picking The Wrong 'Male' as her Husband and Business Partner. The Employees shouldn't have to Suffer. Best Of Luck to the Business and Ex Wife.
This is why you don't open a business and have investors or management company's behind it! I own mine, opened with my own money and if anything happens it's all on me!!! A business should have two separate accounts and the owners should be educated in business as well as finance! 🙄
Fact
He was terminated “effectively immediately.”😂
Thought I was the only one who noticed that grammatical error. SMH!!!!
How is the OWNER Fired from His Own Company? Can someone help me understand? Who is above him to send him that email?
Probably a board, ... once you get a certain size, you need more funding, so you incorporate. An that could mean , yeaaah you the owner, but it's my money staking the joint. So, I may have enough on the board, to vote you out, fired. Like what happened to the papa John's owner.
When you, the founder/onwer incorporate a company..company becomes a legal person acting through the shareholders & board! That why the company terminated him. If he was a sole proprietor then that would be impossible...
@@dougherty8732 ... u must be my only like. Lol. I was guessing right, you just solidified the rightness. Lol.
She had to own 51 percent of the company or more. Smart woman, needs to find herself a smarter and better business partner and husband.
hahahahha staaahp@@kingshark3503
Thats crazy knowing i spent over $70 each time i went there. No ones check should be late. Turkey legs in the store run about $4. , but i spent $28+ and as many people who stood in line i know they made well over what was needed for salaries.
The jobs want you to work but will not PAY.
A restaurant is not your personal ATM it is a business
always messy with these people
So sad, but money is always the root of all evil😂
Actually its the love of money
@@GypsyIndigoBlu
Absolutely 100%✌️
NO it's Not! That's that BULLSHT Bible sht you're quoting!!
@@GypsyIndigoBluNo Loving $$ Doesn't make u or make u do Evil Sht!
And the love of women will do u in everytime .
Black folks +$$$=🔥🔥🔥🔥
You can bet this is what wht folks were waiting for...
And y'all give it to them EVERYDAY everyTIME 😂
@@MysticWizardOfMind Yea.. because I'm a restaurant owner too. Didn't know you knew me personally. Jackass.
They were right.
@@MysticWizardOfMind Except I'm not a business owner. Jackass.
That business at one point was too successful for them not to franchise. It’s a shame someone’s going to have to come in as a partner and reap the rewards of a home run that’s already been hit.
The husband always came off aggressive and street.
a management company exists but no accountant? yeah, that makes sense
Management company fired ,co founder. That means he's not the owner.
Ain’t no way I would been QUIT I ain’t working no where for 6 weeks and ain’t got paid
That’s how Lynn got all those cars.
Nope, he would have had to sell 2 million turkey legs 🦃🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗
😔🙏for all affected
I feel like the news is covering things that are not important for us to know at all. This is gossip that we as Americans don't care about. Show us what's happening with our government
They always got them fancy cars outside and big Trucks...
Money laundering?
Sell one of those fancy cars u have sitting out front and pay ur employees with it🤔🚗🚗
If it's the guy with the FLEET OF ALL RED CARS then yes his ass was blowing off all that money. He was spending like it was no tomorrow😂😂
dam shame
Turkey leg hut is about to close. To much turmoil and monies owed to employees. Maybe they’ll regroup but, maybe not.
Dam don’t close before I get to try it smh I’m flying from Vegas
People were not paid for 6 weeks? Is that legal?
Word of advice if your paycheck gets behind. Leave.
What the Chinese, Indian, Mexican food establishments get away with is wild. It's largely our businesses that are targeted by local government and media.
Good point
Because we the only ones who wants to floss and turn the block into a club with loud music weed smoke naked women,while the others are secretive about their business.
Keep family & business separate
Hold up….why the employee at the end got a man holding his thigh….
I hope that $1000 was in TIPS!!!😂
What a surprise.
NOT.
6 weeks ain't no way he must been stealing food or something
It’s called surviving off of tips Jack ass 🫏 😅🤣🤣🤣
Never in my life met that guy, but in any video i saw him on, he seemed arrogant ....Karma is a B
Hope they can come to an agreement thats good for both of them
He’s a retired street guy. I’m sure it was bud money that started the business.
1,000 in 6 weeks 🤔 How much they paying an hour 🤑
dam my people doin this to themselves
*They should "Franchise out", if the company hasn't already, to keep the brand solvent* .
When the owner gets fired.. sounds like it happened already
Great place. i enjoyed my visits. Hopefully, she works it out and comes back stronger than ever.
That’s sad to hear and see. What happened to the loyalty to your wife, your name, your business, and your word.
He was trying to keep up with Rick Ross😮
This is so sad
There is no "co" in vision. When God give you a vision, you are the only one anointed to bring your vision into fruition. You don't need a co-owner. May God bless this woman to recover from this, and keep her safe from danger. I bet he was sleeping with their staff too. Smhh!