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	5
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	Ciarniello 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 Ciarnello Family of the Seattle Mafia. The Ciarnello'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 Ciarnello'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 Ciarnello 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 Ciarnello 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 chef runs the kitchens, assisted by his sous chefs and the pasticcere, and is famous for his stuffed ziti. The pasticcere has a side kitchen dedicated to the breads, rolls and sweets that you can never have enough of. And yes, the cannolis are to die for.
• Dedicated Bar - The sommelier is the nominal lead for the bar, assisted by the barkeeps. While wines and cocktails are the lead choices, they do have a selection of house beers that are brewed a little further north. Just don't try the IPA.
• Reception and Dining Space - There is plenty of seating available and the only time there is really a crunch is when a wedding coincides with brunch. But reservations are still preferred.
• 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 - Lorenzo's offers six secure rooms, named after extinguished vintages of famous wines, that are in the hidden second level basement. If you wish to rent a room, simply ask the sommelier if you can purchase one of the six extinguished vintages (which means you need to already know them).
• Escrow Agent - The Banker of Lorenzo's willingly serves as an escrow agent to hold sums of money and tiny items (datachips, credsticks, keys, etc) until preset conditions are fulfilled. This allows a Johnson to prove that a certain sum is available to pay for a run without risking the payment being stolen, either by the runners or a third party. Lorenzo's has a sliding scale for fees based on the total amount placed in escrow and immediately charged to the party making the deposit and must be made in person.
• Shadow Bank - Alongside the escrow service, the Banker of Lorenzo's offers simple money serves including account maintenance, credstick transfers, currency exchange and storage of tiny items (datachips, credsticks, keys). Paper money can also be withdrawn in scrips from all AAA corps and select national and AA corps found along the Pacific Rim. Accounts are tiered in a similar manner to DocWagon (Basic, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Black) with higher monthly charges and balance requirements as you work up the scale, with fewer transaction charges.

Description

The art 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) -

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Player Characters

Name	Chips Owed/Owned
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Non Player Characters

• Giovanni Montalban (Ciarnello)