A Contractor Allegedly Gets Assaulted by Owner of Foster’s Smokehouse

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By DSR Staff
DetroitSportsRag@gmail.com
July 11, 2013

We are going to post this Yelp! review from a supposed contractor who did work on Foster’s Smokehouse without comment.

Don’t waste your hard earned money at this place!!!

I am a contractor who worked on the on the remodel of this place ( if you can even call it that) Both owners refuse to pay their bill for the work that was completed.

The owner was all over the place, Not prepared and couldn’t make up his mind on any decisions. The work I was to complete should have been done in 1 day, The owner Ryan dragged it out over a 3 month period then called me the day before their opening and expected me to jump for him. Well I did jump, Completed the work and still have not been paid. The day i went to the restaurant for final payment the owner Ryan threatened to take me out back and “Beat my ASS” then grabbed me by the neck and pushed me out the front door.  This guy is very unstable, Seemed to me like he was on Drugs or something.

For the 3 months I was involved with the place I never saw Terry Foster onsite, From what I could tell he didn’t have much to do with getting this place going. Seemed to me that he was just lending his name. I also contacted Mr. Foster to try to get this cleared up and he was unwilling to do anything.

-An Unpaid Contracor

It would appear the contractor works for Metro Cinematics in Warren, Michigan.  We are currently attempting to get in contact with this person for more information.

[UPDATED at 6:45 pm on July 11, 2013]

The DSR has been in contact with Jeremy of Metro Cinematics for his side of the story.  Jeremy is the owner of the company that Foster’s Smokehouse brought in to mount the televisions at the new establishment.

This is what we have been told by Jeremy.  The DSR would contact Foster’s Smokehouse for comment, but their phone is disconnected.

  • Jeremy took this job because he is a fan of 97.1 “The Ticket.”  He enjoys Terry Foster’s radio program so he figured he would assist the new bar/restaurant by doing this work for basically his cost.
  • According to Jeremy, he had a deal to install 10 HDTV’s for a cost of $1,800.  He was given a $1,000 deposit.  At some point the final invoice for the 10 TVs was reduced to $1,678.  At this time, Jeremy is owed $678 by Foster’s Smokehouse.
  • Jeremy claims that he actually installed 11 TVs.
  • At some point, “Ryan” asked for more TVs to be installed.  Jeremy said he needed his $678 that he was already owed before he could do any other work at Foster’s.
  • Jeremy states that this should have been a one day job, but it took much longer than that because of the incompetence of the management at Foster’s.  According to Jeremy, all the delays were on the Smokehouse’s end.  Jeremy insinuated that the management at the restaurant was clueless.  This story is consistent with what we are being told by patrons of the restaurant including one gentleman who has 20 years in the food service business who actually is friendly with Foster.
  • On June 21, 2013, Jeremy went to the bar to get the money he was owed.  According to his version of the story, he was told by Ryan that if he didn’t leave immediately that he was going to go outside with Jeremy and ‘beat his ass.’  According to Jeremy, Ryan then grabbed him by his neck and threw him out of the bar.  There is a Police Report floating around out there which we intend to obtain on Friday July 12th.  We will immediately post this Police Report upon receipt.
  • According to Jeremy, this SMOKEhouse doesn’t have an actual SMOKER.  At least not the day before they opened.

Anyway, here are the text messages between Jeremy and Ryan.

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And here is how things went for Jeremy when he attempted to contact Terry Foster about this mess …..

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Man, what we wouldn’t pay for Judge Judy to get this case in front of her.

[UPDATED at 10:45 am on July 12, 2013]

Moss spoke to Jeremy this morning and Jeremy wanted to make one thing perfectly clear.  It was not Jeremy’s idea to leave the HDMI cables exposed.  That was the brilliant idea of Foster’s Smokehouse management who planned on hiding the ugly looking wires with hockey sticks and other sports memorabilia.

Jeremy attempted to talk the restaurant idiots out of this horrible plan to no avail.

Moss also states that he would highly recommend Jeremy’s work based on other jobs that Moss has seen Jeremy do firsthand.  The guy knows what he is doing and is a professional with years of experience in starting restaurants and bars.

You can contact Jeremy with this sort of AV work at (586) 201-2522.  This is the link for his website.   

Stay tuned for further details ……