Another local restaurant-business supplier has come forward to accuse super-chef Gordon Ramsay of not paying his bills.
Last week, The Post reported the “Hell’s Kitchen” star is being sued by two wine distributors who claim he stiffed them on bills of about $40,000 each. Now, Michael Braunschweiger, owner of the Bronx-based meat purveyor Endicott Meats, tells Page Six that Ramsay has gone AWOL on a bill for a cool $190,000.
“Just like with the wine guys, he basically stopped responding to me in Nov- ember,” says Braunschweiger, who sells to Zabar’s and Dean & DeLuca.
“He racked up this enormous bill for all sorts of things for his restaurant at the London/NYC Hotel. Tenderloins, duck breasts, racks of lamb, sweetbreads, bacon . . . Then he skipped out on the bill and doesn’t answer calls.”
Braunschweiger, who says he plans to sue, adds, “For a guy who goes on TV and tells people how they should be running their business, maybe he should first learn how to run his own. It seems like he spends more time on TV and scouring for women, or whatever it is he does these days.”
Ramsay, who is married, came under fire for allegedly fooling around with at least three other women in 2008, although he denied the stories.
Says Braunschweiger: “This is the third generation we’ve been in business. We’ve been around since 1929, and we’ve never had a situation like this. He made a big show of saying that we would get paid quickly and easily because we were dealing with a hotel in New York, and not his own business in England, but that obviously wasn’t the case.”
Ramsay’s reps at William Morris Endeavor didn’t respond to our requests for comment.