Mac And Cheese Dude Luke Gatti Applies For Probation In UConn Food Court Incident

Luke Gatti, the University of Connecticut student who experienced a cafeteria “meltdown” over a craving for bacon jalapeño mac and cheese, has applied for a form of pretrial probation.

The original cell phone video of the October confrontation between the student apparently jonesing for mac and cheese and an even-tempered, patient food court manager in the crowded student union on the Storrs campus went viral.

The altercation which started in the food court and led to the legal court had its source in that the very hungry student who demanded mac and cheese, age 19 (i.e., by definition an underage drinker), allegedly brought an open container of booze into the dining hall, at which point the manager asked him to please leave the premises.

With his mac and cheese demands unmet, the NSFW footage embedded below shows the student berating and cursing out the manager with several F-bombs, pushing him several times, and at the end of the encounter spitting in his face as a campus cop cuffed him and hustled him out of the venue.

The Hartford Courant covered today’s Luke Gatti court appearance.

“Gatti…of Bayville, N.Y., was at Superior Court in Rockville on [November 23] to face charges that also included first-degree criminal trespass. He was arrested Oct. 4 and applied for the probation for first time offenders called accelerated rehabilitation.When a defendant applies for accelerated rehabilitation, the court file is sealed. Gatti will have certain conditions to meet if his application into the program for first-time offenders is accepted. They can include community service or getting counseling, according to state law.”

Gotti, who is now an ex-UConn student, is due back in court on December 21 at which time a judge will rule on the accelerated rehabilitation motion.

About a week after the UConn incident, Gatti uploaded an apology to social media about his mac and cheese rant.

In the 2-1/2 minute clip embedded below, he apologized to the cafeteria staff and particularly the manager, who Gatti admitted was just doing his job.

Gatti also acknowledged that during the mac and cheese conflict, he was drunk, acting like an a**hole, and that he was ashamed of himself. The incident was for him a serious wake-up call to address some problems, he conceded. Gatti also recommended that those apparent jokesters sending him mac and cheese care packages should donate the pasta to their local food pantry instead.

The no-nonsense restaurant chef who took Gatti to the ground and held him until the cops arrived published a letter in UConn’s Daily Campus indicating that the had forgiven the student and suggested that everyone else should just move on. He also recommended that Gatti get some help with his issues as well consider joining the U.S. military to learn responsibility and discipline.

The former manager of the Union Street Market was less forgiving about the mac and cheese tirade that occurred on his final shift at the eatery.

Late last month, David Robinson, who now lives in South America with his wife and in-laws, chided Luke Gatti for not reaching out to him directly.

“I saw the video you posted on your YouTube channel. I am neither accepting nor rejecting an apology, because what you offered was not an apology. You sat on a comfy chair in a comfy den in a comfy home and spoke to a camera…Buy a plane ticket, come visit, and then you can apologize in person, the way it should be done. If you do these things, I will gladly accept your apology.”

Under Connecticut law, if a defendant fully satisfies the conditions of the AR application, the pending charges will be dropped at the end of the successful completion of the pretrial probationary term.

Luke Gatti is “no longer enrolled at UConn and school officials won’t say if he left on his own or was expelled,” NBC Connecticut reported.

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