George Thomas Dave
He looks like a crook.
Posted on 08/02/2023 7:45:34 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
Kombucha has treated George Thomas Dave well.
But Dave's kombucha factory treated workers terribly for years, according to a new ruling in a long-running lawsuit against his company, GT's Living Foods.
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As the owner of GT's — which sells about $275 million of the fermented tea drink and other beverages each year — Dave has become a billionaire, according to Forbes estimates. This year he bought a $14-million hilltop estate just a few streets away from the two-home compound he already owned in Beverly Hills.
All along, he's insisted that good vibes and a positive attitude have been the secret to his success.
"People's energy has an influence on the quality of the kombucha," Dave told The Times in 2008, along with an anecdote he's repeated multiple times in the 15 years since: He contended that the dark energy surrounding one early employee who was "suffering from depression" and then died of a heart attack caused the kombucha to go bad.
"As silly as it sounds, because of its living-life-force qualities, the kombucha is sensitive to the energy that surrounds it," Dave reiterated in 2015. Each bottle of his brew says right on the label: Made with "100% pure love!!!"
But according to a ruling filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Dave's kombucha company subjected a number of workers to "deplorable and abusive and disturbing working conditions" in one of its factories in Vernon, just south of downtown Los Angeles, between 2010 and 2014.
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I wonder.
I always wonder about stories like this, because of the propensity of the media and the State of California to punish any business that does well.
Give credit where it is due: one thing California does extremely well is freshly made granola. I suspect their kombucha is also top of the range.
I remember when they were closed down for a year because Lindsay Lohan said kombucha tripped her alcohol detector.
He looks like a crook.
His hilltop home.
what a creepy looking guy. Looks like he’s wearing a fake face.
money cant buy fashion sense apparently either
That was my initial thought, that it was some kind of mask. 🤣
I like the touch of the loop holding his tie in place. 🤣
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