Geez it's almost as if Alan Wong is blaming Steven Ariel, who left Pineapple Room over 8 years ago to work at Canlis in Seattle, for the reason that Pineapple Room went downhill and had to close. Mr. Wong, when things started going downhill at PR you were nowhere to be found. The reason PR went downhill was because the kitchen was understaffed and undertrained. That is your and your senior management's fault. Take responsibility for your own failure and don't try to pin it on someone that left there over 8 years ago!