RE: Dallas Freelance

 


Patrick S. O'Neill
Controller
(o) 303-455-0290x1401
(f) 303-484-7755
DiningOut Magazine
3917 W. 32nd Ave. Unit 1
Denver, CO 80212
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 10:49 AM
To: Mia Littlejohn; chopkins@diningout.com; patrick@diningout.com
Subject: Re: Dallas Freelance

Hi-

This is Barrett Brown, one of your former freelancers. I still have not
received payment for work I performed for Dining Out six months ago. I
understand that you've made several attempts to send a check to my address,
but it still has not arrived. I haven't had any problems receiving checks
from any of my other clients, and thus I'm almost certain that the problem
is on your end. I also understand that you don't typically pay via PayPal,
but this is clearly an unusual case insomuch as that repeated attempts to
get me a check seem to have failed. If you'd like to try PayPal, the e-mail
address I use for my account is barriticus@aol.com. If you'd like to try
sending another check, you can use my new address at:

48 Morgan Avenue #4R
Brooklyn, NY
11237

At any rate, please make arrangements to resolve this by the end of the
month.

Regards,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, Mia-

Thanks again for looking into this. I haven't had any other problems 
receiving any expected mail, and have managed to receive several other 
checks over the last few weeks at the same address, most recently on 
Saturday. I'm assuming that you haven't had any other problems on your 
end with freelancers getting their checks, so I'm stumped as to what 
the problem could be. Did you move offices recently? I suppose you can 
cancel the previous one and try again on Friday. The address you have 
seems to be correct; here it is again:

Barrett Brown
3419 Westminster Avenue
Suite 25
Dallas, Texas
75205

Thanks again,

Barrett

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Mia Littlejohn 
<mlittlejohn@diningout.com>
wrote:


This check was resent to you at the address we've got on file. We 
don't do pay pal payments. Have you had issues with your mail otherwise?

Let me know if you'd like us to put a stop on this check and resend 
another one on Friday or if there is some change to the address.
See below.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Patrick S. O'Neill <patrick@diningout.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Subject: RE: Dallas Freelance
To: Mia Littlejohn <mlittlejohn@diningout.com>


yes, I recut that check to him...

The address on file is:
3419 Westminster Ave
#25
Dallas, TX 75205


Which is what he sent us before.  We do not pay pal payments.


Patrick S. O'Neill
Controller
(o) 303-455-0290x1401
(f) 303-484-7755
DiningOut Magazine
3917 W. 32nd Ave. Unit 1
Denver, CO 80212








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________________________________
From: Mia Littlejohn [mailto:mlittlejohn@diningout.com]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 8:56 AM
To: Patrick S. O'Neill
Subject: Fwd: Dallas Freelance

Patrick,

What's the deal with the check for Barrett Brown that you were going 
to recut at the beginning of July.

He never got the first one and the second one has not shown up yet. 
Let me know what's up.

Thanks,

Mia

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: Dallas Freelance
To: Mia Littlejohn <mlittlejohn@diningout.com>, 
chopkins@diningout.com


Hi-

I still haven't received the check for $180. Not sure what your 
policy is on this, but since there appears to be some sort of 
problem, would it be possible for you to send me the money owed via

PayPal? Please let me know.


Thanks,

Barrett Brown

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
wrote:


Hi, Mia-

I still haven't received the check. Do you know if the second one 
has gone out yet?

Thanks,

Barrett Brown

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
wrote:


Hi, Mia-

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Barrett

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Mia Littlejohn 
<mlittlejohn@diningout.com> wrote:


Hi Barrett,

I talked to accounting. It looks like the check went out to you 
the second week of May. If you've not gotten it yet, which I 
assume from your inquiry you haven't, we'll void that one and get 
another out to you this Friday.

Let me know if that's correct and I'll have them reissue you 
another check.

Sorry for the confusion. Best,

Mia
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: Dallas Freelance
To: Mia Littlejohn <mlittlejohn@diningout.com>


Hi, Mia-

Thanks for getting back to me. The address should be:

3419 Westminster Avenue #25
Dallas, Texas
75205

Hope that helps.

Thanks again,

Barrett

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Mia Littlejohn 
<mlittlejohn@diningout.com> wrote:


Hi Barrett,

I've put a search request into our accounting department. Based 
on the invoice date of 4/8 you should have been paid by 6/8.

Can you confirm your current address for me? I'll be in touch 
tomorrow to let you know what the search request finds.

Thanks for your patience.

Mia Littlejohn

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Barrett Brown 
<barriticus@gmail.com>
wrote:


Anybody there?

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Barrett Brown 
<barriticus@gmail.com>
wrote:


Hi, Cara-

I just wanted to check on the status of that check. Let me know 
when you get a chance.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Barrett Brown 
<barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:


Thanks, Cara. Let me know if you have any more work for me in 
the future.

Thanks again,

Barrett

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Cara Hopkins 
<chopkins@diningout.com> wrote:


Hi Barrett,
Zak is unfortunately no longer with the company. However, I 
can tell you that your invoice has been submitted. We pay 
within 60 days of receipt of invoice; I show your invoice 
dated 4/8, so you will receive payment early June. Please let us

know if you don't.

Best,
Cara Hopkins
Editor-in-Chief


On 5/1/08 10:41 AM, "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, Zak-

How's it going? Just wanted to check and see if that invoice 
has been processed and when I should be receiving payment.

Thanks,

Barrett

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Barrett Brown 
<barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Zak-

Thanks. Here's the filled out version.

Barrett


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Zak Brown 
<zbrown@diningout.com>
wrote:

Barrett,

Sorry about that. Please fill this out and return it to me 
when you can.

Thanks,
Zak



On 4/8/08 10:06 AM, "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, Zak-

I haven't received an invoice from you yet; will you be 
sending it along soon?

Thanks,

Barrett

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Zak Brown 
<zbrown@diningout.com>
wrote:

Barrett,

Sorry I didn't get back to you, I've been really swamped with 
work. Yes, I received them and they were, as always, of high 
quality. Thank you for your enormous contribution to this 
issue. I will be sending you an invoice soon.

Best,
Zak



On 3/19/08 10:34 AM, "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com>

wrote:


Zak-

Just checking to make sure you received the last round of 
restaurant write-ups. Let me know when you get a moment.

Thanks,

Barrett

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Barrett Brown 
<barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Zak-

Here are those three restaurant write-ups, pasted below and 
attached in Word. I can't remember if you said you were 
sending an invoice for the last few rounds or if I'm supposed 
to go online and fill one out there; remind me when you get a

moment, please.


Thanks,

Barrett Brown



Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine



Some chefs aim to take dishes and make them their own; Chef 
Jon Bonnell takes dishes and makes them Texan. The menu at 
Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine is largely made up of items that 
have been modified that they might better appeal to Texas 
dining sensibilities, and which are conjured up from 
ingredients hailing almost exclusively from the state and its 
shores. Among appetizers, the Texas Bruschetta makes good use 
of avocado-pecan relish, tortilla chips, and fire roasted 
salsa in addition to the more universal herbed goat cheese, 
while the Oysters Texasfeller proudly trace their parentage 
to the Gulf of Mexico. Among the entrees, one finds such 
things as the Buffalo Tenderloin - a pepper-encrusted buffalo 
filet that's pan-seared, topped with whiskey cream sauce, and 
served alongside asparagus and truffled pommes frites - and Elk

Mini Tacos consisting of spicy elk meat served in corn shells and
supplemented by pico de gallo, queso fresco, and the utterly improbable
green chili cheese grits.




Craft



Like many great restaurants, Craft operates under a menu 
dictated largely by the earth's tilt. Whereas a visit on one 
particular month may find the diner confronted with guinea 
hen galantine or Muscovy duck served in cherry sauce, another 
visit could very well involve Nantucket Bay scallops with 
rhubard molasses or venison saddle served in huckleberry 
sauce. Whatever the season, though, fresh vegetables tend to 
play an unusually prominent role in most dishes - here, the 
intrepid diner will find Jerusalem artichokes,  Colorado

arrowhead spinach, baby bok choy, and shishito peppers along with a range of
other, slightly less exotic greens.

Craft also offers the sort of brunches one might rightfully 
expect from the sort of place that offers half a dozen 
varieties of oyster; the roasted Scottish salmon with picked 
beet puree and frisee competes with the humble biscuits and gravy

for one's mid-morning attentions.






Ounce Prime Steakhouse



In the short time since it first appeared on the 
ultra-competitive Dallas red meat scene, Ounce Prime 
Steakhouse has established itself as the city's most 
admirably contemporary alternative to those area steak 
purveyors who may have become a bit set in their ways. Ounce 
bucks tradition with such innovative, bar-raising sides as 
lobster mashes potatoes, as well as equally inventive entrees 
like beef carpacio with Dinon aioli. Typical steakhouse seafood

supplements such as Alaskan king crab legs also make the menu alongside
other, more surprising items like champagne miso Chilean sea bass.

And in a nod to the unorthodox, ice cream sandwiches make the

dessert list.

But Ounce sets iconoclasm aside when culinary tradition 
happens to be right; thus it is that the resident steaks are 
aged just shy of a month and broiled at 1,800 degrees, with 
the happy result being timeless Chateaubriand and Wellington that

compete favorably with most any cut on the market.




On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Zak Brown 
<zbrown@diningout.com>
wrote:

Cool, thanks Barrett. Below I've pasted your contacts. Please 
have these to me in ten days or less.

Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine
Jenevieve Currier - Director of Marketing
817.231.8827
jcroall@bonnellstexas.com

Craft
Stacy Bowers 214.397.4170
sbowers@craftsallas.com <mailto:sbowers@craftsallas.com>

Ounce Prime Steakhouse
Contact: Richard Calhoun - EX Chef/GM 
rcalhoun@ounceprimesteakhouse.com 972.503.5800


All the best,
Zak



On 3/13/08 9:04 AM, "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm in, go ahead and send them along.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Zak Brown 
<zbrown@diningout.com>
wrote:
Barrett,

I'm going to hold the three restaurants I have in Dallas 
until tomorrow. If I don't hear from you, I'm going to have 
to give them to someone else.

Thanks, man.





--
Zachary Brown
Production Coordinator/Assistant Editor DiningOut Magazine
3917 West 32nd Avenue, Unit 1 Denver, CO 80212 
zbrown@diningout.com 303.455.0290 x1304 Fax 303.479.2000




--
Mia Littlejohn
Editor
Dining Out Magazine
303.455.0290 ext. 201

3917 West 32nd Ave.
Denver, CO 80212

www.diningoutonline.com
TASTES AND TRENDS TO FEED YOUR INNER FOODIE




--
Mia Littlejohn
Editor
Dining Out Magazine
303.455.0290 ext. 201

3917 West 32nd Ave.
Denver, CO 80212

www.diningoutonline.com
TASTES AND TRENDS TO FEED YOUR INNER FOODIE





--
Mia Littlejohn
Editor
Dining Out Magazine
303.455.0290 ext. 201

3917 West 32nd Ave.
Denver, CO 80212

www.diningoutonline.com
TASTES AND TRENDS TO FEED YOUR INNER FOODIE



--
Mia Littlejohn
Editor
Dining Out Magazine
303.455.0290 ext. 201

3917 West 32nd Ave.
Denver, CO 80212

www.diningoutonline.com
TASTES AND TRENDS TO FEED YOUR INNER FOODIE