Mar 26 2007Jeremy Piven banned from Nobu

What an ass. I never liked that guy anyway.

Wow, some third rate Hollywood loser acting like an asshole. Sssssshocking!

Alternative story: the restaurant lost his reservation, seated 12 people at a table meant for 8, and treated everyone like shit because this is an Aspen restaurant and oh-so-cool.

Colorado is full of rich pussy white people, but this guy is the King of all Cocksuckers

What a dick, seriously as I am sure most of everyone in this site is as well, I am a restaurant vet. This cock sucker should be drawn and quartered and served with a nice Chianti. PCU dude, PCU!

Boy, and I thought I was a bad tipper. I bow to his genius....

First of all, who the hell carries around a DVD to a restaurant? Secondly, where the hell would he keep it? His purse? Rise, Jeremy Piven. I hereby dub thee into the Order of Ultimate Douchebaggery.

If I were his waiter, I would have broken the DVD in half and stabbed him in the back with the pieces he was leaving.

He's barely even famous in the first place!
But, I guess he is at least famous to some degree.... and I'm not. So, back to reality and back to my Cheetos and beer. (>)

Come on! This is completely false.

Everyone knows there's no such thing as an "Entourage: First Year" DVD!

Ya sure it wasn't Sex in the City?

somebody should've thrown a playing card (or the DVD) in his forehead

New Fishdoode - give it up with the "that's like when I" writing. Nobody cares, and absolutely never funny.

I would believe 3. Piven may have been a jerk (for whatever reason) but the restaurant has primadonna issues of its own. In this match of un-classy behavior I declare a draw.

just think about that for a minute..
he used giving an Entourage DVD, AS AN INSULT
what does that say about what he thinks about his own shit-show

the truly amazing part of this story, is that it wasn't "The First AND ONLY Year"

It's Asspen - the waiters would have been prancing with delight if he had given a DVD of "Angels in America."

After he left the restaurant he proceeded to rub baby lotion all over his body and 'cry cry cry' all the way home

If this story's true, two things come to mind:

1) Somebody really thinks they're more important and more famous than they actually are

and

2) The worst part is, years from now, we're going to have to listen to this guy on the Surreal Live 35, or whatever, talk about how he "was arrogant and didn't appreciate what he had when he had it" and all of that, while he looks around for a comeback gig.

Urgh.

nidge

Jeremy Piven is an asshole.

Assholes are my heroes.

Therefore, Jeremy Piven is my hero.

@15: Huh?

I don't see what's wrong with this. Tipping is an act of thanks for exceptional service. If he doesn't feel he received good service, he shouldn't have to tip no matter how rich he is. Besides, an entire season on DVD would run about $50 - that's not a bad tip.
I do smell bullshit on this story though. Who really carries around box sets of DVDs to dinner?

Isn't it a universal restaurant code that if you have a party of 6 or more a 20% gratuity is added into your check? Therefore he shouldn't even had to do the math, which was probably part of his problem.

Is this guy a celeb?

Who the hell is this guy?

File under: Who the fuck is this?-Who gives a rat's ass?-Where's John Cusack?

I'm sorry, but regardless of what the management did or didn't do it is not fair to stiff the waiter/waitress out of a tip for a table of 12! I have friends that are servers, and those people live off of their tips.

Chelsea,

Servers make (By Law) $2-$3 per hour, a 12 top table would be your only table of the night at a whoopdy doo rest. How would you like it if you worked and on your way out the door your boss gave you a DVD, instead of probably $300-$500+. JP is a douche, true or not.

Sorry tipping shit strikes a nerve with me.

Bad tippers should be shot on sight!!!

@19 I'll tell you what's wrong with this. Restaurant servers make $2.65 an hour. They have to pay income tax on 20% or their sales whether you give it to them or not. After they get this alleged 20% tip that, the management is going to make them give up anywhere from 10% to 50% of their nightly take to supplement the wages of the bartenders and bussers, both of whom get paid more per hour than the waitstaff. You don't show up at a busy restaurant with a party of twelve and expect to be seated right away, I don't care who you are. He probably worked in food service before he became "famous", so he should know better. The first season dvd of "Entourage" isn't going to put food on the table. Jeremy Piven is a fucking asshole. The next person who waits on him anywhere should put a few drops of visine in his drinking water.

Haha. It's funny because that's such Ari-esque thing to do.

I love Entourage.

@26...don't worry, with the bad rep he's been cultivating lately he'll be back in the food service industry shortly.

Cheap fuck....A DVD of your show? What an ego...

#28...very true. Word gets around Hollywood about difficult people. You can't get away with everything in Hollywood, like some people think.

This guy is a major butthole.
#1. He is ugly and balding.
#2. He is how old and still hasn't found anyone who wants to marry or even get engaged to hairy middleaged ass.
#3.He takes his mom to every event (which btw is what lame guys do to impress feeble minded bimbo's, then they ditch Mommy at the afterparty and hook up with skanks) Mom is used as a cute dog or a baby in a stroller; parade them around like your mr. sensitive and then reap the dim but slutty benefits.
#4. He used to be best friends John Cusack with but they aren't anymore apparently Piven has gotten a little full of himself since his mediocre tv fame.
#5. He has also gotten into fights with people on the red carpet (Stephen Dorff) and insults the shit out of people who interview him.
Yeah it's funny when people are rude ... in movies. But, when you have to actually deal with some short, chubby, balding douche who thinks he's better than everyone it's time for someone to take that Entourage first season dvd and slice his balls open with it.

But why bother, look at him he's gonna have a miserable life anyway.Plus one day he'll piss off the wrong person and the headline will read.

"Jeremy piven banned from earth; welcomed in hell"

Nice thoughts but nfw. There will always be plenty of work for the actors identified with the type character Piven plays in every movie or show. Behaving that way in real life only helps him with audience acceptance. It'd be different if he wanted to do lots of different roles, or be a lead actor, but as a supporting actor plug-in he's untouchable right now. You need a lot more than bitchy comments from the public-restroom-sex gay staff at a snooty restaurant in snobby Asspen to take him down. It'd have to be something like arrests for domestic assault (but look at Tom Sizemore), or maybe killing a family of 6 in a DUI crash. Or claiming to be Dannilynn's father.

Something smells like bullshit.

As previously noted, parties of 8 or more are automatically tip-raped at any restaurant. Especially high-end joints.

And why would some snooty Aspen restaurant try to drop a load on ANY celebrity unless they were trying to make themselves a bigger name.(I'd never heard of this place but I rarely go to Aspen)

It's also touching that so many readers here work in the food industry but I'd like to hear both sides of this story before declaring anyone an asshole for stiffing on a tip.

#9 You're just embarassing yourself constantly, aren't ya?
http://store.hbo.com/sm-entourage-the-complete-first-season-dvd--pi-1993283.html

@31 you forgot Short !!! Like I could rest a beer on his head short !!!

@ 26 !!!!!!!!!!! YOU ROCK !!!!!
If you can't afford to tip you can't afford to eat out !!!!!!!!!!!

NEVER piss off a food server or Bartender before you have got your food and or drink.

Ahhhh the things you can do with out a "guests" knowledge !!!!

Oh and for those who think that the tip is autmatcilly added for 8 or more. I can not speak for Colordao but in Cali if you do not inform the guest prior to seating them that the tip will be added you can not. Most high end establishments do not do this as they know it offends many patrons and that most people will leave more than the 18% if not forced to tip.

i don't like nobu that much

The restaurant owner is as big a prick as Piven - $2.65 an hour?? That means the GP is supposed to cough up the rest of his employees salaries. Asshole. Waitresses should get minimum wage and tips. What asshole lawmaker is allowing this to go on? Should I start asking for tips at my work, too? (I would be fired)

that's pretty awesome of him. True to his character :D

#19 chelsea_423

You said

"I don't see what's wrong with this. Tipping is an act of thanks for exceptional service."

Actually that isn't true. Restaurants are allowed to pay their waitstaff far below minimum wage because of the assumption that they will be tipped on every meal. In fact that IRS automatically assumes you are tipped and if you don't declare that you are tipped out at least around 10-12% on your tax forms they will audit a waiter for that.

The bright side of tipping, as any person from Europe will tell you, even in our cheap restaurants like Chilli's etc... the service is better than much of the service they get over there. Especially in Germany.

Oh, and I almost forgot. Even if the story isn't true....He still sounds like he's become a real douchebag.

Perfect example of someone who's pissed off for having been sidelined, side-kicked and kept at arm's legth - and now he's showing everyone how wrong they were all those years, right? His buddy John Cusack is talented as hell and you never hear of him pulling shit like this.

I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's fucked up. That ain't my fault. It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government fucks in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to fuckin' type, 'cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big fuckin' surprise - Mr. Pink

While I do think JP is very funny, this is an uncool story if it is true. I waited tables for a long time and getting merch as tips is totally lame. Also, not every state pays waiters that low, but lots do. It sucks that servers have to work that hard for (shitty wage +) tips, but few if any enter into the profession without knowing that...

I have "mad respect" for all the waiters out there, but I've received many far-worse tips in my 10+ years in the biz....

"I tried that once and left an autographed picture of myself as a tip. Only instead of getting mad and throwing it back at me the waitress started making out with it and rubbing it all over her body."

again, who the hell writes for this site? worst commentary ever! its like a 14 year old

Don't know if anyone's posted it yet, but at Nobu's, a gratuity is added when you have a party of 6 or more. So the waiter got his tip.
So he can quit crying like a tittybaby. He was probably expecting a couple hundred just beacuse Pivin is famous.

what a schmuck

#44 - agreed. The little self-referencing stories are lame. It's hard to do well, but it can be done. Here's somebody old-timey Fishers might remember, blurbing for a Halle Berry story elsewhere and showing how it's done:

Halle Berry tells InStyle magazine this month that she has a simple test that she takes once a year to gauge if she’s still in good shape. Us.com says:
Once a year, Halle Berry, 40, tries on the Mickey Mouse jeans she bought when she was 15. "It's my annual test. I try them on once a year, and if I can still fit into them, all is good in the world!" Yeah, anyone else not fitting into the same jeans they bought 15 months ago, let alone 25 years ago?

Whatever. There's no way Halle passed that test this year. The top pictures are from November, and it's not that she's heavy or anything but she's not built like jailbait either. I actually called Halle to see if this story was true and Halle said, "You don't call for two weeks and then when you do it it's about some stupid interview. Forget it. We're done. Leave my underwear in a bag outside and never call me again." Aww c'mon baby, why you gotta be like that.

#19 - try being a server sometime. Do you think that you could fill your car at a gas station, and then try to pay the bill with a DVD? Does the electric company accept DVD as a form of payment?
Thus, DVD is NOT a form of tip.

#32 - JRZ, what's up with the troller running around with the spade at the end of the name?

#44 - that's what happens when you hire DamYELL to do your commentary for you. Fish should be ashamed of himself.
PB, how you been? Haven't spoken at ya in a while. Miss me?

Dear God,
Jeremy Piven ... David Niven ... neither livin ... request is given. Amen.

@42 One of my favorite movies of all time, niiice.....

She should have filled his coffee more often.

Fuck this non tipping motherfucker, what a dickhead....

As a waitress, I can honestly say it's moments like that that make life worhh living.

This story has more holes than Anna Nicoles decomposing body. I love it when people get half a story and then declare someone an asshole. It's as though no one here has ever been a victim of rumors or half-truths.

Sounds more like the service and waiter sucked ass and Piven and company let them know it sucked. Most celebs, not all, go out of their way to tip well because they know people will talk about it.

Come on folks, I am new at this site, but are people on here really that pathetic and sad in their lives where they have to take it out on someone anonymously on a blog?

I agree with # 19 - A tip is not an entitlement. Sure it sucks that waiters get paid such a low base wage, but hey you get what you work for. I worked as a waitress during college and I never had to pay 20% taxes on food sales like #26 suggests. Boohoo, I don't feel bad for waiters, let's feel bad for the people who invest 50k plus on their education, work 80 hours a week, and still live paycheck to paycheck paying off their student loans. BTW- I sure as hell wouldn't want to eat at a restaurant where waiters and/or employees are hurling anything at patrons.

Way to live up to the Jewish stereotype ya cheap bastard. Fuckin' rogaine needin' motherfucker.

We can debate the pros and cons of tipping 'til the cows come home. All I'm saying is maybe the service was so bad that anyone would have been angry, whether they're Jeremy Piven or whoever. I don't care how much restaurant owners fuck over the wait staff, I'm not tipping if I'm treated poorly.

Hey Chelsea, I'm not saying tipping is bad or waiters don't deserve their tips (or in any other way debating the pros and cons of tipping), I am simply saying that a tip is not an entitlement, which means that if you provide good service you will (or you should) be given a good tip

This story is such bullshit. And most waiters at Nobu pull down $100 grand a year easily. And who's saying that waiters get automatically taxed on 20% of their sales? That's bullshit too. Restaurants don't have to report individual waiters' sales to the IRS. Most waiters report about 10% of their tips to the IRS.

you are wrong #45... I ate there just last month with a group of 10 "average" professionals and the grat was not included in the end..... I gladly forked over my share of a $500 tip that the server well deserved. The dinner was F'n kick butt too! $50 video as an acceptable tip LOL

#55 & 19 I agree.

Gratuity: something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service.

(definition in miriam webster)

#51 Yes. But it also cuts down on domestic violence complaints and ammo costs, so don't fucking knock it.

How about the other 11 people he ate with, are they banned too, or they not newsworthy enough to get banned or mentioned?

Give me a break....Fuck Nobu! What kind of name for a restaurant is that anyway, sounds like some homless neutered dog's name in some Walt Disney movie.

And #59, I've got the ammo, I'll I need is a target, are you available?

#58-and in a classy restaurant, and I said CLASSY...the proper form of gratuity is cash money ya dummmy

I'm sure most of you worked in restaurants. Whats the worst tip you ever got? (Besides being stiffed)

Mine was a $2 winning scratch off ticket at a Red Lobster from some Boom-schweega.

#51- You couldn't be further off. Celebrities tip like shit. They act like they're doing the club/restaurant owner a favor by gracing them with their presence and getting them publicity. Most get comped, and still dont tip.

My friend is a waiter at Mansion in Miami and said they regularly treat the wait staff like slaves and don't tip. The worst, by far, he says is P. Diddy and other current rappers. The best tipper, Ice T and his bitch Coco.

@57 Jesus TG! A $500 tip? Can you send me a few hundred, because I love you...and I truly deserve it.

I went to Next Door Nobu in Tribeca years ago, the supposedly cheap version of Nobu, and the fucking meal was still $150. I felt like throwng my delightful seared tuna with tangy ginger sesame sauce at the waiter, as well as my glass of chianti. Trust me, if I had a DVD, I would have shoved it right up their asses.

#51..."I love it when people get half a story and then declare someone an asshole."

HMMM...Howzabout my saying that I declared Piven to be an asshole long before Nobu-gate, and that even if the story is completely false, he's STILL an asshole? Cuz he IS, and I DID. So THERE.

Loved your other comment, too:

"Come on folks, I am new at this site, but are people on here really that pathetic and sad in their lives where they have to take it out on someone anonymously on a blog?"

As opposed to someone who HAS a life and anonymously rags on people who rag on douchebags like Jeremy Piven on a blog? Yeah, that's a LOT better.

Are you people friggin kidding me (okay, I only read a few posts so I'm basing "you people" on those posts)?!?!
a) Piven is a friggin amazing actor in Entourage;
b) Entourage is an excellent show;
c) Leaving the DVD as a tip is hillarious (and seriously, considering the rude comments we all make on this site, how can you not appreciate the humour of that, what, you've suddenly grow this big conscience?!);
d) Piven has always had an attitude, but that's what makes him so funny;
e) Nobu is an excellent restaurant, try the black cod, it's incredible (at least in NYC, can't comment on the Aspen version);
f) Restaurants like that are full of rude and snotty bastards, so I wouldn't take the word of the restaurant at face value, I mean, for them to admit the space was "cramped" means it was really really tight, and I seriously doubt the waiter through the dvd at them, but the fact that they'd even insinuate that he may have goes to show you the type of individual that was serving them all night.
g) I dunno, I just wanted to put another point;
h) Okay, I'm done...
i) Now.

Yeah thanks for the tips #47. In my world you actually have to have some juice to rock the kind of attitude Piven has. And I know if push came to shove this little rotund pussy would go running to his bodygaurds or whatever. It was probably a waitress not waiter and she most likely kicked his pasty ass.

This is nuts, a guy with a style seen in such a state is real real akward !

I believe the Nobu thing. I went on a date with him once and he was a TOTAL ASSHOLE... read about it on my blog: www.themonoblogue.com

Sure that's an asshole move, but you can't ban someone for not tipping. No restaurant would do that. As long as they get the money for the meal, they usually don't care what the servers make. I used to waitress and I've been left nothing, weed, a fake flower, and a Jesus pamphlet (not all by the same person.)

Susieq #71 is a jerk! Take it down the street, lame-ass. JP is a movie star not an old tramp like you, take it down to Nobu's.

That is certainly in poor taste. Funny thing is my friend's friend was allegedly there. Perhaps by there he meant he read about it in an entertainment news (shame) column. This is unbelievable. Who knows how the service was but an Entourage DVD?! He keeps those things on him? Wow. Come on Jeremy.

I keep hearing that Jeremy Piven treats people badly. Maybe the role is leaking over into his real life. He's excellent on Entourage; in fact I always thought he was good even in bit parts (the superrmarket clerk in Singles), but he apparently has some real issues. Someone here said he used to be best friends with John Cusak, another person I've admired who's said to treat waitstaff like crap on occasion. What is it with these people? Admired, rich and pampered but unable to treat people who have none of these advantages with a minimum of courtesy. Most of them develop that condescending, self-important aura polticians and rich people seem to acquire - not attractive nor deserved fellas.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1s-mEfhVELM

yeah im sure he just happened to have a dvd of his own show on his person so he could pass it as a tip. ok, so JP has upset a few people but what worse that or holding a grudge and bad mouthing the guy at every opportunity. get over it.

Hey Jeremy. You and Scott Stapp are currently neck-and-neck in the race to see who is the biggest cock-head in the world. Best of luck. I know you can win!

Jeremy Piven has done the same thing in several Chicago restaurants...He is a complete shitbag of a human being.

Actually #71 you can ban someone for not tipping (as long as it's the owner/manager doing it). You know those "we reserve the right to refuse service" signs? People who've made a stink about not tipping at restaurants where I've worked (when they've had no complaint about the service, they just don't want to tip), even when they've been told that (at the time) the servers only made $2.13/hr, have been told not to come back.