Celebrity chef closes Nashville restaurant, leaving workers jobless

Dulce Torres Guzman / Tennessee Lookout / Paige McCay (right) and Bradley Owens both found out they were out of a job through a notice on Chaatable’s door. The Nashville restaurant closed Friday after four years in business. Dulce Torres Guzman / Tennessee Lookout / Paige McCay (right) and Bradley Owens both found out they were out of a job through a notice on Chaatable’s door. The Nashville restaurant closed Friday after four years in business.

By Dulce Torres Guzman / Tennessee Lookout August 28, 2022 4 min read

NASHVILLE — For months, rumors spread that Chaatable, an Indian restaurant owned by celebrity chef Maneet Chauhan, would be closing after four years in business.

Staff members learned from public documents that the management wasn’t renewing the restaurant’s lease and waited to hear details. Finally, several confronted Chauhan.

“We asked, ‘What’s going on? Why haven’t you told us?”’ said Paige McCay, a Chaatable waitress for three years.

But they were told not to worry. If anything were to happen, “You’d be the first to know,” managers told staff members.