Restaurant & Bar, Owl, known mainly for upsetting pretty much everyone in Las Vegas, pissing off vegans, and threatening journalists with insults and lawsuits, has finally closed after less than a year. Part of the problem seems to be that they owed quite a bit of money to vendors, and their bills were piling up.
This comes after a year of everything from refusing to pay employees, and bar and restaurant industry boycott against the establishment, and even the fake announcement of a head chef who denied being involved with the bar. Don’t forget the dog in the kitchen, which was spotted by one customer taking a large poop.
Of course, the very strange and perhaps slightly insane owner, Stephan Galdau ranted and raved why it was closing, blaming the obvious: himself, and his lifetime of “infantile behavior.”
“We are NOT closing because OWL is not popular. We are NOT closing because OWL is not profitable, stable and consistent. We are NOT closing because our reviews have been anything less than near perfect. We are NOT closing because the people of this City and countless other countries and states do not love OWL. We finally turned our first profit in March and we were attacking all debts, bills and vendors. Save the pity party. A lifetime of reckless dangerous infantile behavior put me here. The consequences of a life time of actions humbled me these past 15 months, I have to pay the price and suck it up. I’m good at what I do. Hold up, I was getting great. Every failure of OWL was always mine, not anybody or anything else. We are humming these days doing between 1600-1700$ in F&B sales these past few weeks and it’s all gone, just like that. And why? Because of Stephan Michael Galdau.”
