Parent company of local bar is sued
Failure to pay its bills could land the Real Time Sports Bar and Grill in St. Charles in the penalty box.
Rosemont-based U.S. Foodservice Inc. recently filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Suparossa, which operates several restaurants including Belvedere Banquets and the Real Time Sports bars in St. Charles and Elk Grove.
The suit, filed earlier this month in Kane County, alleges that Suparossa has not paid more than $144,000 in bills.
Specifically, Suparossa failed to pay $105,860.74 in bills from a line of credit established for the banquet hall, along with another $38,543.24 at the St. Charles Real Time Sports location, the suit alleges.
U.S. Foodservice, which goes by the name Monarch, is seeking full payment, attorneys fees and 18 percent interest on the total bill.
Attorneys and management from Suparossa and Belvedere Banquets did not return phone messages.
Anthony Goldner, an attorney at the Chicago law firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP hired by U.S. Foodservice Inc., referred inquiries to the company, which did not return phone calls.
The case is set for a hearing Jan. 27 before Kane County Judge Robert Spence.
The St. Charles Real Time Sports at 584 S. Randall Road opened in 2008 and helped fill a void created when Bud's closed.
Don't worry
It wasn't exactly the Bobby McFerrin song, “Don't Worry, Be Happy” from 1988, but outgoing Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti had some advice for his staff members dealing with his departure.
Joe McMahon will become the new state's attorney Dec. 1 as Barsanti leaves to become a judge. McMahon, a Geneva attorney, began his career at the Kane County state's attorney's office in the 1990s and rose to become chief of the criminal division.
Barsanti said any transition can be stressful on employees at the office, but urged them not to worry.
“The thing to do is just relax and see what comes,” he said.
Retrial coming?
Kane County prosecutors were dealt a setback recently when a jury deliberated for 10 hours over two days, but could not reach a verdict for Darren Denson, accused of the February 2003 murder of Kyle Juggins in Elgin.
The case which prosecutors characterized as a planned robbery of a drug dealer that went bad ended in a mistrial for Denson, who is already serving a 50-year sentence for killing a parking lot attendant in Milwaukee in November 2003.
Barsanti said officials were reviewing the case to see if they were going to retry Denson, 39, but no decision had been made yet.