The new Applebee’s restaurant in Coney Island celebrates its grand opening Monday — and death is on the menu.
A Blacktip shark named Zane had to be removed Friday from the restaurant’s 5,000-gallon aquarium after devouring three Lookdown fish in a shocking killing spree.
That very same day, a Whitetip shark died after colliding with a three-foot Wonder Wheel replica in the tank, leaving employees shaken by the mayhem.
The sharks “were in shock. We moved them in too quickly,” said Applebee’s owner Zane Tankel, who saw the bloodthirsty $4,000 shark, his namesake, hauled to an aquarium in the aptly named Fishkill, N.Y. due to its poor table manners.
“They went from being in an ocean to being in a tank. They were all disoriented,” Tankel added.
The chaos was captured by a camera crew filming an episode of the reality show "Tanked" on Animal Planet.
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And from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
As Coney Island continues its slow recovery from the damage Hurricane Sandy left behind nearly seven months ago, a national chain restaurant is getting set to open a franchise in the storm-torn community.
Apple-Metro, Inc., the company that owns Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar restaurants in the tri-state area, is opening a restaurant on June 17 on Surf Avenue between Stillwell Avenue and West 12th Street. It will be the company’s sixth Applebee’s restaurant in Brooklyn.
“We’re not opening just any Applebee’s. This one is going to be very special,” Zane Tankel, CEO of Apple-Metro Inc., told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “In honor of the fact that Coney Island is right off the Atlantic Ocean, we’re putting in a giant fish tank. It’s so huge, it serves as a room divider,” he said.
The fish tank is 20 feet long and 10 feet wide. It contains 4,300 gallons of water. To create the fish tank, Applebee’s teamed up with Wayde King from Long Island and Brett Raymer from Brooklyn, co-owners of Las Vegas-based Acrylic Tank Manufacturing the stars of Animal Planet’s hit series http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/tanked “TANKED.” The tank will house sharks and other exotic specimens, Tankel said. http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/applebee%E2%80%99s-open-new-eatery-sandy-torn-coney-island-2013-05-16-201500
And this from Twitter: Applebee's New York
The Fish are arriving! Can’t wait to see them in their new home. Thanks @Tanked and @AnimalPlanet!!! http://ow.ly/i/2mDML
So, were the "Tanked" people/crew involved with placing the fish in the tank too early because of a filming deadline?
Was it an honest mistake?
Did the owner order the fish in despite what the "Tanked" thought was best?
The tank certainly looks nice but building a tank is one thing but putting fish in it is another.
So, who screwed up that some expensive fish died?
The tank certainly looks nice but building a tank is one thing but putting fish in it is another.
So, who screwed up that some expensive fish died?
To create the fish tank, Applebee's teamed up with Wayde King from Long Island and ... myfunfishtank.blogspot.com
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