Post #85846 by cynfulcynner on Mon, Apr 12, 2004 2:09 PM

This item was in Leah Garchik's column in the SF Chronicle today:

Harry de Wildt gave a birthday lunch for Denise Hale at Campton Place last Wednesday, at which John Traina (that's all the social stuff, now let's get to the news) said that all $50,000 shares in the new Trader Vic's have been sold, and the next step is $3.5 million in renovations to the site, the old Stars. Chipping in has a nice old-fashioned ring to it, but it also means that shareholders are likely to have special privileges, which is traditional, too. The old Trader Vic's was a place where everybody was served the same bongo bongo soup, but outsiders couldn't help notice that the swells got better tables.