Lorenzo's

Lorenzo's Fine Italian

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Escrow Service {Shadow Service}
A fine dining establishment providing shadow banking services
Contact Owner	AgentMonkee
Connection	7
Public Contact?	Yes
Archetype	Restaurant
Location	Beverly Park, Everett
Metatype	None
Sex	No
Age	156 (Est'd September 3, 1923)
Preferred Payment Method	Nuyen, Scrip
Hobbies/Vice	Fine wine, pasta and Italian weddings
Personal Life	Nothing personal, just business
Faction	Ciarnielli Family

Summary

Lorenzo's is a very fine Italian restaurant in the Beverley Park neighborhood of Everett that also provides several special services to the shadow community.

Sponsorship

Lorenzo's is neutral territory sponsored by the Ciarnelli Family of the Seattle Mafia. The Ciarnelli's provide protection from the other large criminal and shadow factions in return for a steep discount for the Family on their shadow services, and sometimes a small discount on their legitimate services.

Lorenzo's has their own service force embedded within the staff and there are usually enough made Ciarnelli's and associates present for the food to at least double the security force at anytime with ad hoc response teams arriving within 5-10 minutes from the nearby casinos.

The restaurant and staff are respected by Ciarnelli soldiers and associates for the services provided to the family (and the food), though they know enough to keep their language coded until they know which employees are truly clued in. Members of other factions can often be found enjoying the neutrality and food, though the dress code is firmly enforced.

Lorenzo's neutrality is secondarily enforced by its own clientele. While the Ciarnelli Family and associates are their largest block of customers, they are far from their only customers. There are plenty of individuals from other factions who use Lorenzo's services and no one wants to hit the bank that holds your stash, or your boss's.

Services

Lorenzo's services can easily be divided into their legitimate operations (Upstairs) and their shadow services (Downstairs).

Legitimate Services (Upstairs)

• Fine Italian - The ground floor contains the reception area, bar, kitchen and two wings of patron dining. Chef and Pasticcere
• Dedicated Bar - House brews and Sommelier
• Reception and Dining Space - There are two wings of patron dining on the ground floors and a large open area on the second floor that is normally open for patron dining, but can be roped off for large receptions. Wedding parties are common.
• Wine Bank and Merchant - Lorenzo's sommelier has long offered fine wines to its patrons, both for enjoyment and investment. They will also store the purchased wine in their underground vaults for a small fee. The wine vaults take up most of the basement level (dry storage taking up the rest) and use age-old techniques for preserving the fermented gold within.

Shadow Services (Downstairs)

• Secure Meeting Facilities - Six secure rooms named after extinguished vintages of famous wines
• Escrow Agent -
• Shadow Bank - Banker, moneychanger and tiny storage

Description

The deco building of white granite is accented by oak inside and out, surrounded by green lawns and high hedges cordoning off sections of the grounds (and hiding security fences). The main entrance is on the side, as their driveway leads to the parking lot behind the restaurant (valet parking is available). The back grounds have a "smoking porch" with weathered seating and awnings for shade. The "service" entrance is an extended walk-in cooler from the back of the kitchen to the parking lot. Delivery trucks have an easier time in that lot. The extended cooler has hedges with security fencing keeping it hidden from the patrons inside and the public outside.

The ground floor starts with the reception desk where patrons are greeted and wait to be seated. Right next to the reception desk is the coat check window (please note the security post inside, but mainly out of sight) and the bar with light seating is just behind. A richly paneled staircase forms the back of the bar and leads to the second floor (and the restrooms are built underneath the staircase with the doors on the other side from the bar). There are two wings to seat patrons, one to the front (to the right as you came in) and one to the back. The kitchen is the middle, bracketed by the bar and the two dining areas.

Staff

• Philip Watts (Chef) -
• Hayden Murphy (Sommelier) -
• Melinda Price (Pasticcere) -
• Walter Tanner (Head Manager) -
• Ricky Henson (Security) -
• Dianne Armstrong (Banker) -
• Lucas Fleming (Facilities and Grounds) -

Key Dice Pools

SkillName (Specialization) - Skill+Attribute(+Specialization)[Relevant Limit]

Matrix (Memes) - 13(15)[9]

Network

Player Characters

Name	Chips Owed/Owned
Template:Player_Character	Even

Non Player Characters

• Giovanni Montalban (Ciarnelli)