By adamg on Sun., 1/20/2008 - 8:52 pm
Save Toscanini's - $6,500 in pledges as of Sunday night.
Debate between people who want to help kindly Gus Rancatore and his ice-cream shop get back on their financial feet and people who don't understand why they're being asked to support tax evasion.
Rancatore e-mails a statement to the Cambridge Chronicle.
Via B0st0n LiveJournal.
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How did this happen, Gus?
By Ron Newman
Mon, 01/21/2008 - 12:17am
Before you ask for donations, you really should explain how this happened. Otherwise, how can we be sure it won't recur in a few years?
Agreed
By BStu
Mon, 01/21/2008 - 1:04am
As I understand it, most of the money owed is in in meal tax revenue. Was that money not collected from customers or was it not given to the state? In the former instance, the donation drive actually would seem reasonable. In the later, they are asking people to bail them out for pocketing state tax revenue and that troubles me. I'm sure the owners are very nice people, but if they are going to ask for help, they need to do more to explain this situation. Nice people don't get a pass to break the law.
Taxes
By plt3012
Mon, 01/21/2008 - 9:14am
Maybe someone can set up a web site for me and collect donations to help me pay my taxes! Really, the folks collected the money from customers and then went ahead and pocketed it. They deserve to be put out of business. They're lucky if they don't end up in prison.
Don't count on a donation from her
By adamg
Mon, 01/21/2008 - 11:06pm
Pahkcah02: Only in Cambridge:
And don't forget the Someday
By adamg
Mon, 01/21/2008 - 11:26pm
Walter Holland says it now makes sense why the owner of the creperie that replaced the Someday didn't want to have anything to do with Rancatore:
And the takeover (and later sale) ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 01/22/2008 - 1:06am
of the bakery on Washington and Beacon Streets in Somerville?
what the hell happened there?
I would be willing to give money if there was some explanation for all of this takeover and collapse business, or at least some explanation of the whole tax thing. Illness in the family requiring huge money? Extended family in NoLa? I think people need to know or it is just good money thrown after bad.
the bakery
By Ron Newman
Tue, 01/22/2008 - 1:11am
was never owned by Gus Rancatore or the Toscanini's company. They licensed the name from Toscanini's in order to sell his products there along with their baked goods. The bakery still exists and is now called The Biscuit. (Bad name, I think they should go back to Panini.)
Help Toscanini's. Wear your opinion.
By Anonymous
Fri, 01/25/2008 - 5:24pm
www.cafepress.com/tosci