The Viennese restaurateur Martin Ho, formerly the operator of the restaurant “404 Don’t Ask Why” in the former Novomatic building on Naschmarkt, and the landlord of the venue are at odds with each other. The reason is a rent dispute and unpaid bills. Now a new level of escalation in the dispute seems to have been reached, because over the weekend the landlord had the “Nobelpizzeria” evacuated and the entrance walled up…
Rags fly between landlord and tenant Lukas Neugebauer and Dots Group von Ho. According to Dots Group, Neugebauer “vigilously broke open access to the property, cleaned up all objects in the rental object (…) and placed or disposed of them in front of the door and changed the lock on the rental object,” the standard reports. more access to the building.
“The whole place was bricked up” over the weekend
The Dots Group announced that “the whole place was bricked up” over the weekend, and the whereabouts of inventory that were not permanently installed were unknown. The windows are also covered from the inside with wooden panels, making operation impossible at the moment. The Dots Group believes their lease will run until 2031 and they want to continue operating the restaurant under “appropriate technical conditions”.
Landlord Neugebauer, on the other hand, said on Wednesday that it had been agreed with the Dots management last week that the building would be taken back – “provided we clear away the last things that have been moved”. installations that cannot be removed, according to Neugebauer, I have paid a transfer fee. The restaurant has already been rented out and the locks have been replaced.
The Dots Group broke into the property on Saturday and so the new tenant has taken “security measures” by barricading or bricking up windows and the entrance area. Damage to property has also been reported.
According to Ho’s lawyers, the property was never returned, there was no eviction agreement and the Dots Group was legally still the tenant. The landlord had transferred 15,000 euros “unsolicited” and the payment of this amount is in full swing.
Disputes about outstanding bills
According to “Standard”, the break was caused, among other things, by outstanding invoices worth 60,000 euros. The outstanding rents have been paid, but there are still incomprehensible costs for electricity and heating that have not yet been paid. The Dots Group suspects that one must be “disgusted” with the rent in order to rent the place at a higher price.
According to the lawsuit, there have already been “a series of disruptive actions” in recent weeks, “with the overtly communicated aim of disgusting the plaintiff as a tenant of the rental property despite the sincere lease agreement”. The goal, so the Dots Group suspects: the restaurant must go to a new tenant at a higher rent.
Source: Krone
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