Mr. Duffy and Mr. Muser had explored the possibility of a purchase that would give them complete financial and creative control of Grace, their spokeswoman said. Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Olszewski said Wednesday night that there had been other problems with the two men. Mr. Duffy had quit in May, but returned to the restaurant in September. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,” Samantha Bomkamp, who writes about the restaurant business for The Chicago Tribune, wrote in a Twitter message. As he told Mr. Pang in a 2013 profile in The Tribune, he found grace from a difficult childhood through cooking.

Source: New York Times December 21, 2017 16:07 UTC