A former cook at celeb chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s JoJo Restaurant said she had to endure heaping helpings of sexual harassment at the famed East Side eatery.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Arlene Keith says she went to work as a meat cook at the eatery in March, and was subjected to vile, sexually explicit remarks and advances by another cook, who even went so far as to text her a picture of his manhood.
When she rebuffed him, the suit says, he started retaliating by turning off the flame when she was cooking and “throwing scraps of garbage into [her] pot of food.”
When the alleged victim complained to her boss, he began being abusive to her as well, the suit says.
Vongerichten, named as a defendant but not accused of any harassment, called the suit “frivolous.”