Managers dug into their own pockets just to keep the restaurant’s doors open for the day, public records and interviews with a dozen former employees and business associates confirmed. After penalties and interest it totals more than 1 million dollars between 20. Hankerson, the son of Atlanta native and superstar Gladys Knight, opened the first Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles location back in 1997 at 618 Ponce de Leon Ave. It’s said he did not pay more than 650,000 in state sales and withholding taxes.
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I went with a group just before going to see The Color Purple, we all enjoyed our meals, we tasted each others dishes, the fried chicken, brown sugar salmon, smothered chicken, mac and cheese, fried okra. He is the former owner of Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles restaurant. I didnt know what to expect, never had the combination of chicken and waffles, but to my surprise if was delicious. The spending exacted a heavy toll on employees who were shorted on their pay after working under grueling and sometimes unsafe conditions. Gladys Knight’s son, Shanga Hankerson, has been sentenced to two years in jail over unpaid taxes. Hankerson siphoned money from his business’s three locations to finance a voracious marijuana habit and sex parties, witnesses have told investigators. Now, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned damaging new details about how Hankerson spent the company’s money and treated his employees. Shanga Hankerson, the 45-year old son of legendary soul singer Gladys Knight, is sentenced to two years in prison for unpaid taxes. Gladys Maria Knight, known as the 'Empress of Soul',12 is an American singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman. the Chicken & Waffles restaurant that she founded with Ron Winans.
All three locations have since reopened under state receivership. 1 hit, Gladys Knight's 'Midnight Train to Georgia' (recorded in 1973 with her family. Fans now wait in hour-long lines at its spot on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta for a taste of the Midnight Train: Four jumbo chicken wings on a golden waffle.īut the outward success of a famous family business unraveled when state revenue agents raided and closed the restaurant chain last month, arrested Hankerson on theft counts, and filed civil racketeering charges against him, alleging more than $1 million in unpaid taxes, interest and penaltie s.
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