nativeomahan wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 3:28 pm
The comments on the restaurant’s Facebook page post announcing their immediate closure are beyond wicked. This guy must have made a TON of enemies in the business world. People didn’t like his food much, either.
2018 was a bad year for NCAA basketball. A #1 seed loses in the first round, and a #1 and #2 lost in the second. Next thing you know a story about a million dollar pool shows up in the World Herald. I'm sure those very well off people were not happy with whoever leaked that story, especially if they didn't pay.
Honestly, living very close to their location on 204th street, I can't say I'm surprised. Food was mediocre at best, and the place was never that busy. Seems like they were open for less time than it took them to build and open their damn building.
nebugeater wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 5:47 am
Drove by the one between Gretna and Elkhorn this AM, about 5, and it was DARK. I don't mean like a traditional overnight. There were no lights on for security or emergency lighting. TO me, it looked like they powered down at the main breaker
This moring the trim lights outside the buidling and couple of emergancy / night lights were on at the location
For the record NEBUGEATER does not equal BUGEATER !!!!!!!
Elkhorn_Urbanist wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 8:30 pm
Honestly, living very close to their location on 204th street, I can't say I'm surprised. Food was mediocre at best, and the place was never that busy. Seems like they were open for less time than it took them to build and open their damn building.
It never made much sense to me, but then I'm not a restaurateur, so what do I know? However, why would they try and enter the fast food burger space? In what fantasy world do they think there's room there for another brand. Open ONE and if successful start expanding? Sure. Open 3 at once? That's just foolhardy. That's on top of the problematic owner, but I won't get into that as the rest of social media is doing just fine pointing out his flaws. lol
Elkhorn_Urbanist wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 8:30 pm
Honestly, living very close to their location on 204th street, I can't say I'm surprised. Food was mediocre at best, and the place was never that busy. Seems like they were open for less time than it took them to build and open their damn building.
It never made much sense to me, but then I'm not a restaurateur, so what do I know? However, why would they try and enter the fast food burger space? In what fantasy world do they think there's room there for another brand. Open ONE and if successful start expanding? Sure. Open 3 at once? That's just foolhardy. That's on top of the problematic owner, but I won't get into that as the rest of social media is doing just fine pointing out his flaws. lol
The one on Maple seemed to do well. I will say that they seemed to put a decent amount of money into the buildings. Original designs that you normally don't get from locally owned places. Obviously once word got out on who owned it, that hurt them. I was suspicious on some of the reviews I read that bombed them and thought they might have been intentional. So took the family there and everyone liked it. The burgers were much bigger than standard fast food burgers (though for me I liked Bronco's better). The two items I really thought stood out were the frix (their combo fries with sauce) and their shakes.
I didn't go much but stopped in a couple times a month (usually after a Costco trip) and they always seemed to have a decent to good crowd between the inside and drive thru.
nativeomahan wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 3:28 pm
The comments on the restaurant’s Facebook page post announcing their immediate closure are beyond wicked. This guy must have made a TON of enemies in the business world. People didn’t like his food much, either.
They took comments down rather quickly. Those would have been fun to browse.
nativeomahan wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 3:28 pm
The comments on the restaurant’s Facebook page post announcing their immediate closure are beyond wicked. This guy must have made a TON of enemies in the business world. People didn’t like his food much, either.
They took comments down rather quickly. Those would have been fun to browse.
I think it was more for his behavior for his actions that led to his ouster from the Good Life. I do though also think that's what led to people claiming to not like his food either. I always felt a portion of the "reviews" and critiques of his food were by people that didn't like him and were written without actually spending money at his place or eating what they wrote about. Similar to the review bombing that takes place when someone is offended by a movie or product. A classic example is what happened to John Higgins. A NCAA basketball ref that lives in Omaha. He owns a roofing company. A couple years ago Kentucky fans were mad at him for a game he reffed in the Elite 8 where they lost by 2 to eventual national champion North Carolina. They not only threatened him but started posting bad reviews on Google about his business.
nativeomahan wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 3:28 pm
The comments on the restaurant’s Facebook page post announcing their immediate closure are beyond wicked. This guy must have made a TON of enemies in the business world. People didn’t like his food much, either.
They took comments down rather quickly. Those would have been fun to browse.
I think it was more for his behavior for his actions that led to his ouster from the Good Life. I do though also think that's what led to people claiming to not like his food either. I always felt a portion of the "reviews" and critiques of his food were by people that didn't like him and were written without actually spending money at his place or eating what they wrote about. Similar to the review bombing that takes place when someone is offended by a movie or product. A classic example is what happened to John Higgins. A NCAA basketball ref that lives in Omaha. He owns a roofing company. A couple years ago Kentucky fans were mad at him for a game he reffed in the Elite 8 where they lost by 2 to eventual national champion North Carolina. They not only threatened him but started posting bad reviews on Google about his business.
I see the connection between the two, however, being a sub-par ref and being a total piece of |expletive| are a little different.
nativeomahan wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 3:28 pm
The comments on the restaurant’s Facebook page post announcing their immediate closure are beyond wicked. This guy must have made a TON of enemies in the business world. People didn’t like his food much, either.
They took comments down rather quickly. Those would have been fun to browse.
I think it was more for his behavior for his actions that led to his ouster from the Good Life. I do though also think that's what led to people claiming to not like his food either. I always felt a portion of the "reviews" and critiques of his food were by people that didn't like him and were written without actually spending money at his place or eating what they wrote about. Similar to the review bombing that takes place when someone is offended by a movie or product. A classic example is what happened to John Higgins. A NCAA basketball ref that lives in Omaha. He owns a roofing company. A couple years ago Kentucky fans were mad at him for a game he reffed in the Elite 8 where they lost by 2 to eventual national champion North Carolina. They not only threatened him but started posting bad reviews on Google about his business.
I see the connection between the two, however, being a sub-par ref and being a total piece of |expletive| are a little different.
Yeah I wasn't comparing the two individuals. Just using an example of what review bombing is, where people write a "review" out of spite and didn't actually use the service, eat at a restaurant or watch a movie.
