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A much-touted South Beach Thai restaurant has sued its former celebrity chef, accusing him of stealing its recipes, employees, customers and even publicity photos when he quit last month to return to his family-owned eatery. 
  
 But the chef, Piyarat Potha Arreeratn  better known to Thai food fans as Chef Bee  said through his attorney that the Khong River House is trying to subject him to a Vulcan mind-wipe to obliterate 20 years of cooking experience. 
  
 50 Eggs Restaurant Company, which owns the Khong River House as well as several other fashionable South Florida eateries, filed suit against Chef Bee in Miami-Dade circuit court, saying that he carried out a premeditated plan to loot the companys trade secrets to benefit his own restaurant. 
  
 He manipulated a friendship to betray a trust, says the lawsuit, which was filed last week and originally reported in Miami New Times. 
  
 Chef Bee wasnt available to comment. But his attorney, Lawrence Silverman, called the lawsuit astounding and said it amounts to a claim that Thai food was invented on South Beach in the fall of 2012. 
  
 Thats when Khong River opened to much ballyhoo, including an advertising campaign built around Chef Bees experience. The restaurant was quickly a hit with both diners and critics, being named a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation national award for best new restaurant. 
  
 But back in the kitchen, the lawsuit said, the scene was an ugly one. Chef Bee, though he had begged for the executive chef job and gotten a $10,000 bonus (as well as a $90,000 annual salary) to sign a contract with 50 Eggs, disappeared shortly before the restaurants opening, the lawsuit said. When other executives finally tracked him down, Chef Bee stated that he just could not get into the kitchen. He stated he would get sick and break out into hives if he had to cook. 
  
 Because it would have been a disaster to have the face of the restaurant pull just days before its grand opening, the lawsuit said, 50 Eggs made him an expediter, a sort of liaison between waiters and the kitchen. But that didnt work either, the lawsuit said, and with Chef Bee unable to cook the dishes and unable even to run a professional kitchen, his duties were reduced to greeting diners and doing media interviews. 
  
 50 Eggs tried to give Chef Bee enough training that he could conduct television cooking demonstrations on the restaurants behalf, the lawsuit said. But as soon as he finished his training, he quit, the lawsuit said, and returned to Oishi Thai, the North Miami restaurant owned by his family. (Which, the lawsuit said, Chef Bee had promised to close.) Soon Oishi Thai began featuring meals, employees and publicity photos from the Khong River House, the lawsuit said. 
  
 Not only that, but Chef Bee announced his restaurant would start serving Thai street food, a concept that 50 Eggs shared with Chef Bee previously during his employment at Khong River House, the lawsuit added. 
  
 The lawsuit also accuses Chef Bee of planning to open a new restaurant in Coral Gables. His decision to quit the Khong River House was not really a spur-of-the-moment decision, but rather part of a premeditated plan by Chef Bee to use what 50 Eggs provided to him (e.g. concepts, recipes, inventions, ideas, branding, marketing strategies, training, etc.) and go into competition against 50 Eggs, the lawsuit said. 
  
 Stealing 50 Eggs secrets to benefit other restaurants, the lawsuit said, is an unfair and deceptive trade practice in violation of Florida law as well as a non-compete deal that bans Chef Bee from opening a restaurant anywhere in Miami-Dade County within a year of leaving the Khong River House. 
  
 The lawsuit concedes that several tiny boxes were left blank in Chef Bees contract that had to be checked in order to activate the non-compete deal and other restrictions on the chefs future business activities. But other documents Chef Bee signed make it clear he knew he was covered by the non-compete clause, the lawsuit said. 
  
 Chef Bees lawyer, however, said that was nonsense. They provided a contract to my client. They wanted him to sign it, then and there, and he did, Silverman said. The contract didnt include a non-compete and they never asked him to sign a non-compete. ||||| Bill Wisser One of South Florida's hottest restaurant companies is suing a prominent former chef, alleging deceit, betrayal, and incompetence. In a steamy lawsuit filed this past Tuesday that reads like an epic novel, 50 Eggs Restaurant Company LLC alleges Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, known to most Miami restaurantgoers as Chef Bee, "would break out in hives if he had to cook" and "did not know how to run a professional kitchen." 
  
 See also: Khong's Chef Bee Headed to Oishi Thai 
  
 Bee is the former chef at Khong River House in South Beach. He departed suddenly last month, saying he wanted to return to Oishi Thai, a North Miami place he founded in 2005. 50 Eggs owns not only Khong, which has received national acclaim, but also Yardbird Southern Table & Bar and Swine Southern Table & Bar, two of the region's hottest eateries. 
  
 "I am personally and professionally disappointed in Bee's decisions, all of which forced us to this point," says 50 Eggs CEO John Kunkel. "It is truly unfortunate that Bee forced us to seek the help of a court of law to teach him the difference between right and wrong." 
  
 The 45-page lawsuit, filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, drew a strong response from Bee, whose lawyers call the claims preposterous. "[Kunkel] promised me this would be good for my family company," he said. "After two months, he broke that promise." 
  
 The lawsuit and response provide a stunning look at what happened backstage at the innovative restaurant that was a semifinalist for the 2013 James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant; the award recognizes establishments that are "likely to have a significant impact on the industry in years to come." When Khong River House opened in December 2012, the restaurant gained an instant following thanks to its warm and inviting décor, innovative cocktail program, and authentic Thai street food. Though the news release announcing the opening of the restaurant listed a team of three chefs in the kitchen, it was the executive chef -- Bee -- who became the breakout star, quickly gaining celebrity status with a seminar spot at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. 
  
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As far as celebrity chef lawsuits go, this one may have Paula Deen's beat. A Thai restaurant in South Beach is suing its former executive chef, known to fans as Chef Bee (real name Piyarat Potha Arreeratn), claiming that when he was hired, he agreed to close his family-owned restaurant—but instead he quit in quite dramatic fashion and returned to that eatery, stealing, the lawsuit claims, recipes, concepts, employees, and publicity photos. Arreeratn, for his part, says (through his lawyer) that the lawsuit basically assumes Thai cuisine "was invented on South Beach in the fall of 2012" when Khong River House opened, and that the restaurant is attempting to subject him to "a Vulcan mind-wipe to obliterate 20 years of cooking experience." Chef Bee, the lawsuit from parent company 50 Eggs Restaurant Company claims, begged for the top job at Khong, and its promotional campaign was built around him. It met with much success upon opening, but shortly before the opening, Chef Bee allegedly disappeared and then, when found, was "panicking" and refused to go into the kitchen: "He stated he would get sick and break out into hives if he had to cook," the lawsuit says, according to the Miami Herald. Executives ultimately reduced his duties to simply promotional ones, but last month, he quit and returned to family-owned restaurant Oishi Thai—and, the lawsuit claims, started featuring the meals and photos he'd stolen. It was all part of "a premeditated plan" to steal those ideas, the lawsuit says. The Miami New Times has more, and notes that the "steamy" suit "reads like an epic novel."