![]() She serves as the Entertainment Editor for Trendy Africa. Samantha Ofole-Prince is a California based journalist and movie critic. I know nothing lasts forever, but let us be the one that lasts a long time.”įind out what the family decides to do on the season premiere on Saturday, March 15 at 9pm ET/PT on OWN. “I hope people like the show so we can continue for a while. “I am just hoping we get more viewers this year,” Miss Robbie says. Reality TV has certainly been good to the duo and one thing mother and son will both agree on is the hope that they can pick up even more viewers this season. With the two wanting to expand the restaurant in different cities, Tim is going to have to really convince Miss Robbie that Houston is a better option. “I lived in Los Angeles for 40 years as a singer and soul food is hard to find,” says Robbie, “so I want to bring Sweetie Pie’s to Los Angeles as I think it would do well but Tim wants to expand to Houston.” With all-new episodes of the hit show scheduled to air on OWN, the new season sees Miss Robbie and Tim contemplating expanding their franchise beyond St. “The camera follows us around and we see the show the same time you see it so we don’t get to edit anything.” Miss Robbie Montgomery, Tim Norman, Jenae Wallick, Charles Crenchaw and two-year-old TJ are cast members of Welcome to Sweetie Pie’sĪ two-time NAACP Image Award nominee and 2013 Image Award winner for “Best Reality Series,” it’s one of the few programs on TV that portrays an African-American family in a positive light. “We have people flying in from London, Africa and busloads of people from all over the world and some who just take a weekend trip just to come and eat.” “Any business needs advertising and you can’t pay for advertising like this,” shares Tim. It was really a blessing.”Īfter five seasons on air, the two say business for their restaurant has tripled with busloads of tourists visiting their eateries on a daily basis. A friend of mine introduced me to a TV producer and it got edited and passed around and was picked up by the network in less than two months. At the time, I was always running around with the camera in the restaurant. ![]() “OWN was just beginning and they needed shows. TV-14 1h IMDb RATING 6.3 /10 148 YOUR RATING Rate Reality-TV Miss Robbie Montgomery, an ex-background singer for Ike and Tina Turner, is as sassy and savvy as ever in an all-new season of the hit show, Welcome to Sweetie Pie's She and her son Tim are working hard to open their third soul food restaurant - Sweetie Pie's 'The Upper Crust,'. “It was a situation where God was just in alignment,’ shares Tim on the show’s conception. ![]() Now in its sixth season, the series that premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network in the fall of 2011 has been one of the few ratings success stories for OWN, a joint venture between Discovery Networks and Oprah Winfrey. Some days it really does feel intrusive having the cameras follow you around, but I know I have to work as its work to me.” “It’s hard to keep doing the same thing over and over, but there are so many things that happen in the restaurant. “We act crazy so it’s just them following us acting crazy,” laughs Miss Robbie. Initially a home-cooked, home grown soul food eatery with a cafeteria-style setting, it has since expanded to three branches around the city, and became a backdrop for the OWN docu-series three years ago.Īveraging one million viewers per episode, the series follows the soul food entrepreneur, her nephew Lil’ Charles, son Tim Norman, his girlfriend Jenae and their son TJ, and focuses on the running of their chain of soul food restaurants called Sweetie Pie’s.īoth hilarity and drama are offered in equal measure as Miss Robbie, who has cemented her spot as one of TV’s most popular personalities, and her loving family work to expand their empire, one soulful dish at a time. Louis, Missouri after a collapsed lung put an end to her singing career. The show is essentially a free weekly national commercial for the small business which Miss Robbie, a 73 year-old former singer for Ike and Tina Turner, started in 1996 in St. Which isn’t a bad thing for entrepreneur Miss Robbie Montgomery and her family whose reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” has been a huge success for the OWN Network. So far, reps for Sweetie Pies have not publicly responded to Tates lawsuit.The Line outside Sweetie Pie’s each day isn’t likely to decrease any day soon. He has been employed by the business for more than seven years and according to the networks website, he has been fired and re-hired numerous times by founder Miss Robbie. On OWN reality show Welcome to Sweetie Pies, which is based on the restaurant and its employees, Ike is portrayed at times as a problem child of sorts. For her newly filed lawsuit, she is requesting a jury trial. Its currently unclear what became of that. Tates first complaint was filed with the Equal Opportunity Commission in February 2013. However, she says that Bussey never got back to her about starting at the other location. After her complaints ensued, Tate says that she was instructed to go and speak to the companys business manager, Charles Bussey, who promised to transfer her to the restaurants Upper Crust location. ![]()
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