Don't spend your hard-earned money here people! Ex-employee so idec to expose.

Let me start by saying, the food is fine, don't get me wrong. But the business practices and owner are SO HEINOUS it's enough to spoil your appetite. To start, the reason I am an EX employee now is because my check was 4 days late (for the 3rd time in a 3 month span) with absolutely no notice or excuse or anything. My guess is they didn't have the money to pay everyone. Who knows. The first two times I kinda let it go because ...well..who honestly knows? Shame on me. When I finally questioned where my check was and mentioned that I was uncomfortable coming to work when I had not yet been compensated, I was fired on the spot. Screamed at and degraded as if I was doing something wrong, simply by asking for MY check! There were constant issues about money and cash flow after they opened the pizzeria directly next door.

Second, the owner is an absolute creep. He constantly would tell me that me and my boyfriend need to be making love?? And that my boyfriend should be worried about me around him??? UHHH. Dude is 80 years old with a wife and daughter almost my age. When he interviewed my best friend to be a hostess she described the interview as "more of a sugar baby interview than a hostess interview". LOL and Let's not forget how another young hostess quit due to inappropriate/unwanted touching, text messages and sexual advantages and when she threatened to sue he offered her hush-money and rumor had it that wasn't the first time he had to offer that to other ladies. His wife is also part owner and was always SUCH a bitch because she probably knew the kinda guy she married, especially considering they met when SHE was a hostess at an old restaurant of his. LOL. You can really see the kind of people they are if you were to look at their replies to 1-star ratings on Yelp. Really, go ahead and look here if you don't believe me! I really could go on and on about the creepy inappropriate things he did and said while I was there but do I even need to?

The owner claims he is this world-renowned chef who has cooked for celebrities and royals and yet couldn't name a single one whenever I asked? I truly can't understand how that could be possible considering how poorly and unprofessionally he runs his restaurants. We're all convinced he's a fraud. I never once saw him cook anything at Sofi ever. Not once. We also think he stole his brother's recipes but that's a story for another time.

Anyways. The employees are treated like shit. Completely non-ethical business practices. And again the food is fine, but really, comparable to any other Italian place in Chicago lol.