LITTLE SILVER, NJ — Another lawsuit was just filed against Bob Sickles, Jr., this time by a local meat company that says the upscale market he owns owes them more than $100,000.
The latest lawsuit was filed Monday (March 18) by Holiday Meats of New Jersey, Inc., against Sickles, Jr. and Sickles Market.
Last Monday, Sickles Market abruptly closed their original Little Silver location, which had been in business for more than 100 years. Three days later, Patch exclusively reported a Manhattan-based fruit vendor says Sickles owes them $26,000, plus a market employee said many Sickles workers have not been paid since January.
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Now today, we can exclusively report the details of this latest lawsuit:
The lawsuit is very short and direct, only three pages. It was filed Monday in Monmouth County Superior Court. Holiday Meats is a wholesale meat distributor located in Little Silver. They say they supplied meats to both the original Sickles location and to their Red Bank outpost, both of which are indefinitely closed.
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Holiday Meats says they are owed $9,601 from meats delivered to the Red Bank store store. They say they are owed $107,244 for meat delivered to the Little Silver store.
“Defendant, Robert Sickles, Jr., personally guaranteed and made assurances that plaintiff’s invoices totaling $116,845.49 would be paid,” read the lawsuit. “Payment has been demanded and no payment has been made.”
They are also asking to be reimbursed for attorney fees.
Metrovation, the owner of the Anderson Building in Red Bank where Sickles opened a satellite market, sued Sickles on March 1. The building owner says Sickles owes more than $324,000 in unpaid rent and late fees. Metrovation filed to evict Sickles from the Anderson Building in February.
Sickles did not immediately respond to the Holiday Meats lawsuit. Last week he said: “Unfortunately, because of devastating financial losses resulting from the failed expansion in Red Bank, we found ourselves in a dire and unexpected cash crunch … We have exhausted all available resources to pay amounts due to our employees and vendors, but are working diligently on avenues to obtain funding to pay the amounts due to employees and to attempt to resolve all vendor claims.”
Vendors, Employees Say Sickles Owes Them Thousands Of Dollars (March 14)
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