A former Good Earth server is drawing a connection between losing her job and a phone call KARE11 meteorologist Jonathan Yuhas made to the restaurant's management.
A woman who identified herself in a phone interview as Kari Notaro told me that she believes Yuhas called her manager to make sure she was held accountable for meddling in his personal life.
Notaro was under the impression that Yuhas was still dating a friend of hers last spring when she saw the meteorologist at Roseville's Good Earth having dinner with a different woman. Using her cell phone, Notaro told me, she called a friend who called the woman they thought Yuhas was dating. The allegedly aggrieved woman then drove over to the restaurant and slid into the booth occupied by Yuhas and his dining companion, according to Notaro.
There was no scene, Notaro claims. Even if you believe that, I'm going to need a moment here. Soft-spoken Yuhas, who seems like a booor-ing Cub Scouter, has another side that resembles that of a playa, playa! IMplausible!
Moving on. The next time Notaro went to work, she said, she was informed that she was being terminated for making a phone call during her shift. She said she was told that Yuhas had complained that she had interfered with his "dining experience." Notaro said she's a single mother and needed that job. "I have never had one customer complain," she said. "I have been written up once because I missed a staff meeting. I like the Good Earth."
When Yuhas refused to return my phone calls, I showed up at a court hearing in Hennepin County regarding his divorce from Angelica Andresen. He still wasn't answering questions, and one of his attorneys, Jana Aune Deach, attempted to stop me from speaking to him. Deach had to realize quickly my queries had nothing to do with the divorce.
A few days after the courthouse encounter, Yuhas' main divorce lawyer, Ed Winer, left a voice mail. "Our position" on the matter is that "a server in a restaurant violated the employer's policies ... and was fired. Claiming that Yuhas got her fired would defame him and be untruthful. Certainly might hurt his situation at his employment. As you know, the parties are divorcing, a private matter, and we would hope that you not listen to this person and say something that would not be accurate and would be harmful to this family," he said.
Donna Fahs, a veep at Parasole, the Good Earth's holding company, confirmed that Yuhas did make a phone call.
