Kevin Hart Slammed for ‘Greasy, Tasteless’ Food Reviews, Comedian Closes All Four of His Restaurants

Kevin Hart is a bankable star for Hollywood studios, but his celebrity status hasn’t translated to the identical level of success he achieved when he entered the food industry. As of Tuesday, September 10, his 4 vegan burger restaurants, Hart House, have closed their doors in Los Angeles County.

The trendy business enterprise was co-founded by Hart and a “team of passionate partners” including CEO Andy Hooper in 2022.

The 4 locations included a flagship store in Hollywood, one other in Westchester near Los Angeles International Airport, in Monrovia and University Park, the world where the University of Southern California is situated. Many social media users learned concerning the closure via an Instagram post.

“Thank you. To our team, guests and community who helped us make the change we all wanted. For now, goodbye Hartfelt as we begin a new chapter,” he wrote Hart House September eleventh Syndrome. Comments have been limited.

On the restaurant’s website, the comedian said he launched the franchise “to create a feel-good experience that combines the joy of shared dining with the power of purpose.”

He promised that the menu would offer delivery and “taste beyond belief” in every bite. The company boasted that its food was free of cholesterol, antibiotics, hormones, artificial colours, preservatives and plenty of other substances.

The abrupt end of the short-lived project has sparked a variety of reactions, including disappointment, shock, and questions on what could have gone unsuitable. A slew of comments have been found on the positioning A Vegan Tips PodA video posted to TikTok confirms that Hart House did, the truth is, go bankrupt overnight.

“Wow, I really like Hart House,” the user wrote. But the standard of the food, which included a chicken sandwich, nuggets, shakes, kale salad, fries and tots, was questionable.

“The food was terrible, especially if you’ve had really good vegan food like slutty vegan,” one commenter wrote, comparing Hart House to the black-owned restaurant Slutty Vegan, which found phenomenal success when it opened in Atlanta.

The debauched vegan restaurant owner, Pinky Cole, has opened locations across town, including at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Birmingham, Alabama, and various New York City boroughs, with plans to open much more restaurants in the long run.

Elsewhere online, one other heated review for Hart House included: “Healthy, these plant-based meats are highly processed, just look at the ingredients list.” Someone else wrote: “I looked at the ingredients and also found that it’s high in sodium. Not healthy at all.”

Both comments appear to contradict the healthy lifestyle Hart is understood for promoting. Additionally, an apparently former customer left a lower than satisfying review that read, “The food was awful. It tasted like cardboard.” While one other review said, “The food was incredibly greasy and tasteless.”

Others suspect the issue could have been marketing. The last entry within the Hart House comic “Laugh At My Pain” got here out in October 2023 and featured Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.

The two men feasted on burgers while promoting their film, “Good Burger 2.” “Kevin never promoted a movie after it came out,” joked the person, who believes the movie star could have done more to assist the corporate.

While another person noted, “it’s very weird to see such a popular place just shut down without a press release or any kind of notice,” one other TikTok user asked, “What the hell is going on!?”

In his only statement to the media, made available via Los Angeles Eater On September 11, Hooper said, “The response to the product has been incredible and we thank our dedicated team, our customers and our community partners for helping us make the change we all wanted and for their unwavering support of Hart House.” Hart didn’t confirm the closure on any of its social media platforms.

The Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist actor has also lent his name to other business ventures, including partnering with Fabletics to launch various clothing lines that he creates together with his wife Eniko Hart, running his own plant-based superfood brand VitaHustle protein shakes and supplements since 2020, and endorsing energy drink C4 Energy, to call a number of.

Aside from his film and stand-up profession, it appears that evidently Hart’s extracurricular endeavor that has garnered essentially the most attention is his Gran Coramino tequila line, which he launched in 2022.