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Investment company of billionaire George Soros relishes big stake in Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (Flashback)
The Post-Standard ^ | 6/27/09 | Tim Knauss

Posted on 08/10/2009 7:13:12 PM PDT by Sammy67

Syracuse, NY - Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, the popular Syracuse eatery, may have been founded by bikers. But now, it has a big corporate backer.

Soros Strategic Partners LP, a private investment company launched by one of the world's wealthiest people, billionaire financier George Soros, owns 70 percent of the business, Dinosaur co-founder John Stage said today.

Soros' company made the investment last year, but Stage kept it quiet until now. News leaked out after Dinosaur Bar-B-Que filed documents listing the company owners on an application for tax breaks in Troy, where Stage hopes to open his next restaurant.

The Times Union of Albany first reported Soros' involvement today.

Stage, who opened a Dinosaur location in Harlem in 2004, said he met and befriended two partners from Soros Strategic Partners, David Wassong and Mark Pinho, a couple of years ago in New York. When Stage's former partners in the Dinosaur business, Syracusans Larry and

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barbque; bbq; business; dinosaur; georgesoros; newyork; restaurant; rochester; soros; strategicpartners; syracuse

1 posted on 08/10/2009 7:13:14 PM PDT by Sammy67
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Dinosaur Bar-B-Que voted America’s best barbecue in ABC’s “Good Morning America” poll
by Tim Knauss / The Post-Standard Saturday May 23, 2009, 5:20 PM

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/dinosaur_voted_americas_best_b.html


2 posted on 08/10/2009 7:13:48 PM PDT by Sammy67
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To: Sammy67

Remind me to never eat BBQ in New York


3 posted on 08/10/2009 7:14:22 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife
Remind me to never eat BBQ in New York

Most of the food in this city is miserable. The very expensive stuff is probably just fine, however.

Why the hell would anyone eat BBQ here, anyway? That's something you do in Macon.

4 posted on 08/10/2009 7:15:49 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (green is the new red.)
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To: Sammy67

This guy needs to go.


5 posted on 08/10/2009 7:16:25 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: the invisib1e hand
That's something you do in Lockhart Texas.
6 posted on 08/10/2009 7:17:23 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife

Or at Perrini Ranch in scenic Buffalo Gap Texas.
mmmmmmmmmm


7 posted on 08/10/2009 7:19:22 PM PDT by Old Texan ((Leave me the HECK alone and let me live my life. I hate Commie's))
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To: mylife

George Soros needs to be patriotic and pay taxes, just ask VP Biden!


8 posted on 08/10/2009 7:21:49 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Old Texan

Is that an invite? L0L


9 posted on 08/10/2009 7:23:28 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Old Texan

Looks good! http://www.periniranch.com/


10 posted on 08/10/2009 7:24:51 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: rovenstinez

Pay up Bucko!


11 posted on 08/10/2009 7:28:40 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife
That's something you do in Lockhart Texas.

Texas, that's what I meant.

12 posted on 08/10/2009 7:31:44 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (green is the new red.)
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To: rovenstinez

“George Soros needs to be patriotic and pay taxes, just ask VP Biden!”

That’s what gets me these guys advocate higher taxes and then turn around and do everything in thier power to limit thier own.


13 posted on 08/10/2009 7:31:51 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: the invisib1e hand

;)


14 posted on 08/10/2009 7:33:19 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: STARWISE; LucyT

Soros ......again


15 posted on 08/10/2009 7:33:34 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Sammy67
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que voted America’s best barbecue in ABC’s “Good Morning America” poll
by Tim Knauss

Maybe the best in New York, but that would be like being the best hemorrhoid in Rosie O'Donnell’s ass.

Bar-B-Que.........who even spells Q that way.....New Yorkers!

16 posted on 08/10/2009 7:34:37 PM PDT by Recon Dad ( MARSOC DAD)
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Thanks for letting me know about this. There is a Dinosaur BBQ here in Rochester NY and I will never go there again and I will tell all my friends never to go there!


17 posted on 08/11/2009 7:15:08 AM PDT by whipster
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Now he pledged $35 million for drugs and booze for the parents of needy school children in NY...


18 posted on 08/11/2009 9:32:48 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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