According to Tycer, Waters contacted him the week of the event and then supplied him on the Friday before the Garden Party with ten pounds of pricey greens for him to use at the charity affair, plus six pounds for the restaurant's regular weekend needs. Tycer, whose wife gave birth to their daughter some five weeks before the event, says that he did not agree to work the Garden Party, because he wanted to be with his family. Oliver confirms that statement. According to her, she had an oral commitment from Tycer to appear at the event, and she only found out he was not attending when she listened to her voice mail at noon that Sunday. Waters says a sous-chef, one no longer working at Aries, appeared at the Garden Party to help out, and was surprised to learn that his employer was not going to appear.
Waters willingly claims authorship of the note.
Tycer acknowledges leaving the voice mail. Still, both parties agree he paid for only the six pounds he had ordered for the restaurant, and refused to pay for the ten pounds of greens earmarked for the charity event. They wilted before I could use them. Waters's assessment in the end was less ominous. I have wonderful, wonderful customers, and I can choose whom I do business with.