My selfish attitude? Nothing selfish about it, sweetie. Maybe you don’t know what selfish means. I’m only presenting an opposing view - one shared by many other people - and suggesting that “donors” start a fund for Gus’s now-unemployed workers. If that is really all that offensive to you, then I guess I am “sorry.”

I think also you may not understand how karma works. See, I haven’t really done anything wrong.

To clarify: an example of someone doing something wrong is charging their customers for meals tax, spending that money on something else, and then asking for more cash to cover the deficit while trumpeting their “community service.”

As for setting up a fund for the workers, I am a worker. I have been working at Toscanini’s for over 2 years. I love my job, I love the atmosphere, and I would and will fight for Gus. I have donated an entire weeks paycheck, which is a little under $300, to this cause. Call me foolish if you want, but it is nothing compared to how much Gus has helped me in the past. He is a pretty understanding boss, and no where else that I know of would do the things he does for his employees. A lot of the kids who work there have not been there long enough to see that, and some that have are still too selfish to see how nice a boss he is. They are too concerned with their own problems to help others, and for them I feel sorry. But that is getting off topic.

He donates ice cream so people an raise money for their needs, which is pretty selfless. He does not just ‘give away’ ice cream unless it is for a good cause. Or unless they are good people. Gus can see the good in people that a lot of people otherwise can’t (myself included) and I think thats admirable.

Toscanini’s has cleaned up their act. Let’s help them over this last hurdle. If you can, pay them back for what they have given the Community over 27 years–see www.savetosci.com.

And by the way, they have NOT been charged with a crime (let alone convicted.)

save your money, Gus will be fine. He’s donated to enough people that the state will forgive him.

also, please enlighten me about these secret goings-on about the Someday. Let me guess, mean ole landlord picking on nice-guy owner who just can’t seem to get the trash picked up or rent paid on time?

From a series of digital images–made from the ingredients in Toscanini Ice Creams—stuff to buy to raise money for them.

On CaféPress, buy a tile coaster, a journal, a bib and other objects with Khulfee images.

http://www.cafepress.com/jmotzkin

On Etsy, limited edition, highest quality digital prints from 6” to 30” printed locally.

http://jmotzkin.etsy.com

On Imagekind you can order small prints, matted or framed from this series

http://motzkin.imagekind.com

Buy Art, Help our Community.
Proceeds of sales to support Toscanini’s!

Junk in the store? You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

As for his other businesses, there was a lot of stuff behind the Someday Cafe that the public didn’t know about. And as for Harvard Sq, they (who ever owns it, Harvard I believe) were renovating the building. When they were done the area Toscanini’s had been in had been made bigger. And due to rent being so much money and Gus not needing a space that large, he chose not to reopen in Harvard Sq in the same spot. It had nothing to do with how he ran that store.

Saving Toscanini’s means a lot to me. I could never fully explain how much Gus and Mimi and Toscanini’s in general have helped me. I know other people feel the same way. Its a shame that you can’t get that through your thick skull to see that. If you don’t want to donate, then don’t. But don’t discourage others from helping. Keep your black heart to yourself.