Not much is left of Schuhbeck's business since his bankruptcy and his sentence for tax evasion. Now his famous Munich spice shop has to close too. However, the managing director does not want to give up that easily.
The Schuhbeck Company has to clear its spice shop in downtown Munich. That was decided by the district court of Munich I. The company, which now runs the spice shops founded by star chef Alfons Schuhbeck, had not paid any rent since mid-June last year, as their lawyer Joachim Borggräfe also admitted. The court estimated the amount in dispute at 333,840 euros.
The landlord's lawyer, Günther Volpers, assured that the eviction claim would not be enforced before March 15. Borggräfe and the company's managing director, Günter Blitz, stated that they would be able to settle the outstanding rent payments by then. The company has an annual turnover of four million euros, and a new investor will soon join the company. Volpers no longer believed that, spoke of "Grimm's Fairy Tales".
The spice shops are the "flagship" of the company, which, according to him, also manages other Schuhbeck activities such as consulting activities, said Borggräfe and called Schuhbeck the "mastermind" behind the GmbH.
Not much is left of Schuhbeck's numerous previous deals since his bankruptcy and his sentence of millions in prison for tax evasion. His restaurants are now closed and it also looks bad for the other two spice shops in Altötting and Regensburg if the shop in Munich actually has to be cleared, said Borggräfe. Because the shops are completely interwoven and are all managed from Munich.
In court, Schuhbeck emphasized that he "didn't squander the money on a life of luxury (...)": "I fooled myself, my friends and acquaintances and also my defense lawyers to the end because I didn't want to admit that I was entrepreneurial failed."
