Your Comprehensive Timeline of Events Leading Up to the "Foodie Fist Fight"

McInnnis is tapped as "chef and partner" of 50 Eggs' new Southern fare concept, Yardbird and the project debuts to much acclaim.

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McInnis gets tapped by Food & Wine for People’s Best New Chef, Top 50 Best New Restaurants by Bon Appetit and even cooks at the Eater awards. Things seems to be going great.

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After nearly two years, word comes out that McInnis is departing from Yardbird to "take some time with his family," Kunkel says in a statement. He also says, "we support him in this mutual decision to take some time for himself and his family and look forward to possibly doing another project with him in the future."

It’s also important to note that this news breaks within hours of Chef Bee making a nasty split with neighboring 50 Eggs restaurant, Khong River House.

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It still seems like a mutual split between McInnis and 50 Eggs a month later when McInnis sits down with Short Order and tells them the reason he left Yardbird was because he "wanted to 'get back to why [he] fell in love with this industry in the first place" and that "Yardbird will always be very special to me, and a place I'll forever call home."

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Chef Bee files a suit against his former employer, 50 Eggs Group, and gives the Miami restaurant industry a new term – Kunkled, which according to the motion means:

"To Kunkel" is acquiring a hire - liar - fire cache in the Miami restaurant business, as that appears to be 50 Eggs' pattern with its executive chefs: to hire them, accuse them of lying, and then fire them (or cause them to quit)."

Rumors start swirling that McInnis was also "Kunkled" right before Yardbird began expansion into other markets like Las Vegas. Nothing is ever confirmed though — but that doesn't stop chefs from voicing their opinions about the situation on Twitter.

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The duo, that now confirm to press that they are indeed an item, open up Root & Bone in NYC.

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Reports surface that a fight breaks out between the two at the official after party at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival at the Natuilus Hotel just days before McInnis opens his new Miami restaurant, The Sarsaparilla Club.

Page Six reports that it was Kunkel who started it, "saying he was going to sue him and ruin his restaurants. He was saying he was going to make his life a living hell."

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